TOPIC: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER “The Yellow Wallpaper”

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Prior to the twentieth century, men assigned and defined women's roles. Traditionally, it is the people who held power in the pre-modern societies. Women are treated as second class individuals with minimal constitutional rights and the inability to gain the respect of their male counterparts. Feminist critics believe that the culture has thus been involved in training women to accept their secondary status while encouraging young men to take control (Gioia, Gwynn, 895). Charlotte Perkins Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells a story about a delusional woman who tumbles sa insanity as a result of the reflection he sees it as wallpaper. One perception of the wallpaper is that he sees a reflection of it within the walls, trapped, and he desperately tries to free himself. More importantly, the story is about attacking the role of women in society. The narrator can generally represent all women living time frame of nine centuries. In "The Yellow Wallpaper" We see the society of the nineteenth century by three different characters: the dominant wife of John, the submissive sister Jennie and the narrator becomes more socially aware of his around as time progresses. By decomposing the three characters, we can fully understand the criticism portrayed sex in America in nine century.

The control of the wife of John may be symbolically

Characterized as the centerpiece men during Gilman's lifetime. The way the author describes John is apparently a dominant character, he treats his wife as a child and in no way his equal counterpart. John places his wife in a room that is designed for children to be looked after. "It's a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for windows are barred for little children "(Gilman, 298). The narrator is separate from the room, while John gets to experience the external world. The "barred windows" represent a prison cell as John treats his wife as a refractory patient of his. During Gilman's time, the men went out to work while the women will serve to be the housewife. Symbolically the narrator said, "I was sitting beside the window now, up to this atrocious nursery .John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious" (Gilman, 298). The reader may recognize the narrator is acting as a "housewife" while John was "away all day." John also becoming doctors believes that his wife is suffering from some disease. His wifes actions are not always sufficient for his point of view. He discourages her from writing, even writing as always perceived as his wifes greatest passions. "There comes John, and I must put it away, - he hates to have me write a word" (Gilman, 298).

Believing in John slows down the psychosis, but the disorder wins in the end. His belief that she is "story-making" gives her false ...