Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And Trifles
I have decided to take the approach of Argue that historical and social contexts are reflected in the gender of characters in two or three literary works. The two literature works I have decided to go with are The Yellow Wallpaper by Alice Walker and Trifles by Susan Glaspell. In both of these stories I feel like that historical and social contexts are reflected in the gender of characters.
In The Yellow Paper it is about a woman and her husband it takes place in I would say early 1900s. The woman’s name is Jane and her husband’s name is John. Im the story jane is sick with nervous disorder. Her husband is a doctor and he thinks nothing is wrong with her he thinks she just has temporary Nervous Depression. In line 6 she says “John has no …show more content…
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency what is one to do?” She also mentions her brother is a physician and that he thinks the same thing. She also mentions she likes to write and her husband will not allow her to do that. The whole poem is about her being in a room that was once a nursery and the wall have yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story she talks about the patterns and everything in the wallpaper. In line 26 it says “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened onto the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it. She says that her husband does not know how much she really suffer in line 41. As the story goes on she starts to go somewhat crazy saying she women behind the wallpaper. She starts to imagine her own little world. She hates the yellow wallpaper at first and talks about the sight of it and how ugly it is and then the smell saying it creeps all over the house almost to say it is a living person. Later on another character is introdyced her name is jennie and it is Johns sister and also
In The Yellow Paper it is about a woman and her husband it takes place in I would say early 1900s. The woman’s name is Jane and her husband’s name is John. Im the story jane is sick with nervous disorder. Her husband is a doctor and he thinks nothing is wrong with her he thinks she just has temporary Nervous Depression. In line 6 she says “John has no …show more content…
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency what is one to do?” She also mentions her brother is a physician and that he thinks the same thing. She also mentions she likes to write and her husband will not allow her to do that. The whole poem is about her being in a room that was once a nursery and the wall have yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story she talks about the patterns and everything in the wallpaper. In line 26 it says “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened onto the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it. She says that her husband does not know how much she really suffer in line 41. As the story goes on she starts to go somewhat crazy saying she women behind the wallpaper. She starts to imagine her own little world. She hates the yellow wallpaper at first and talks about the sight of it and how ugly it is and then the smell saying it creeps all over the house almost to say it is a living person. Later on another character is introdyced her name is jennie and it is Johns sister and also