The Yellow Wallpaper Reaction Paper
Trapped
In the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte describes a woman's life under the control of her husband. The story takes place in the late 1800s in a small town in California. The woman is believed to be mentally ill; her husband does not let her go anywhere. The windows are barred, the door is locked, she is not even allowed to write in a journal. Charlotte grew up in Hartford, Connecticut with her mom and big brother. Charlotte’s father left and abandoned the family during her infancy, leaving them in poverty. As she grew up she became a prominent feminist in America by writing many short stories. The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on gender roles, and how women had little to know rights in the late 1800s.
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Treichler from University of Illinois, she states that the woman got so fed up with the wallpaper that she had to tear it off and destroy it. I disagree with the statement that the woman just got fed up. I believe that the meaning is far more deep than the woman becoming fed up. I believe that the narrator saw that the woman was not only trapped in the wallpaper, but that she was trapped in the oppression of women. I believe this because the narrator was serving under the husband; she was trapped and could not escape his “prison.” The narrator tore the wallpaper off to free the woman from her prison, just like the narrator wants to be free from her husband’s rule. Lisa Galullo observes in her essay Gothic and the Female Voice: Examining Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper”, published on University of Yale’s website, that as the narrator begins to have mental breakdowns, the sentences become shorter and disconnected. She also says that to understand the true meaning of the story, the reader has to make many inferences while reading. I strongly agree with Lisa; although there is no where in the story that clearly states that she is going insane because of her husband, you can infer that she is having mental breakdowns from all of the controlling that is taking place. The writer did a great job by encouraging the reader to read with a critical eye, and for the reader to find the symbols in the story. Lastly, Lisa states that writing the
In the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte describes a woman's life under the control of her husband. The story takes place in the late 1800s in a small town in California. The woman is believed to be mentally ill; her husband does not let her go anywhere. The windows are barred, the door is locked, she is not even allowed to write in a journal. Charlotte grew up in Hartford, Connecticut with her mom and big brother. Charlotte’s father left and abandoned the family during her infancy, leaving them in poverty. As she grew up she became a prominent feminist in America by writing many short stories. The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on gender roles, and how women had little to know rights in the late 1800s.
The way gender …show more content…
Treichler from University of Illinois, she states that the woman got so fed up with the wallpaper that she had to tear it off and destroy it. I disagree with the statement that the woman just got fed up. I believe that the meaning is far more deep than the woman becoming fed up. I believe that the narrator saw that the woman was not only trapped in the wallpaper, but that she was trapped in the oppression of women. I believe this because the narrator was serving under the husband; she was trapped and could not escape his “prison.” The narrator tore the wallpaper off to free the woman from her prison, just like the narrator wants to be free from her husband’s rule. Lisa Galullo observes in her essay Gothic and the Female Voice: Examining Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper”, published on University of Yale’s website, that as the narrator begins to have mental breakdowns, the sentences become shorter and disconnected. She also says that to understand the true meaning of the story, the reader has to make many inferences while reading. I strongly agree with Lisa; although there is no where in the story that clearly states that she is going insane because of her husband, you can infer that she is having mental breakdowns from all of the controlling that is taking place. The writer did a great job by encouraging the reader to read with a critical eye, and for the reader to find the symbols in the story. Lastly, Lisa states that writing the