Response To The Yellow Wallpaper
Response Paper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story about a woman that has no power over herself and is told how to think, act and live. By todays standers that’s something that is no longer tolerated. Today men and women are looked at equally, both with the same amount of power. Using feminist theory one can analyze and criticize the story through symbolism and character.
At the start of the Story the narrator is stuck in a time that women are not equal to men and are considered to be less tan a man. The narrator never states her name throughout the whole story she is only referrer to herself as “myself” (Gilman468). This is because she feels like she is no one and has no importance unlike her husband, which she does refer to as “John”(Gilman468). John is supposed to be taking care of …show more content…
When you marry someone its because they can comfort you and even more not judge you. Her husband only wants for her to be a stay at home wife with no goals or future. She feels as is she is a prisoner in her own home. She had no freedom what so ever she hardly talked to anyone she had no connection with the outside world. She could only be free or feel free is when she wrote. Her friend “Jennie”(Gilman475) kept her secrets from her John and everyone else. She deep down wanted to be just like her, But she just didn’t have the courage. The narrator states “Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good” Here we can see her thinking that she can do things on her own. She always knew that she was being forced to think she was “sick”. This is where she is realizing everything that although she always thought she was alone in that room she really wasn’t she had John and Jennie supporting her for the
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story about a woman that has no power over herself and is told how to think, act and live. By todays standers that’s something that is no longer tolerated. Today men and women are looked at equally, both with the same amount of power. Using feminist theory one can analyze and criticize the story through symbolism and character.
At the start of the Story the narrator is stuck in a time that women are not equal to men and are considered to be less tan a man. The narrator never states her name throughout the whole story she is only referrer to herself as “myself” (Gilman468). This is because she feels like she is no one and has no importance unlike her husband, which she does refer to as “John”(Gilman468). John is supposed to be taking care of …show more content…
When you marry someone its because they can comfort you and even more not judge you. Her husband only wants for her to be a stay at home wife with no goals or future. She feels as is she is a prisoner in her own home. She had no freedom what so ever she hardly talked to anyone she had no connection with the outside world. She could only be free or feel free is when she wrote. Her friend “Jennie”(Gilman475) kept her secrets from her John and everyone else. She deep down wanted to be just like her, But she just didn’t have the courage. The narrator states “Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good” Here we can see her thinking that she can do things on her own. She always knew that she was being forced to think she was “sick”. This is where she is realizing everything that although she always thought she was alone in that room she really wasn’t she had John and Jennie supporting her for the