She is unreliable because she is deranged. She “creeps smoothly on the floor,” this is one of the few points that explains how deranged Jane is. The story is set in a time when women are more submissive. John, the narrator’s husband, is a doctor who claims that Jane is ill. Jane was told to stay in her room which is unique as the “windows are barred.” The barring on the window symbolizes herself being holed up inside and in the real world against her will. The bed is also nailed down in her room.
The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane as she claims that it is confusing and contradicting. Jane was a writer and was not permitted to express herself through the means of writing. She is not only affected by the physical restraints of being inside the room alone, but the yellow wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. Jane's negative thoughts are first displayed through "It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions." This is displaying the beginning of her negative thoughts which is the contribution to her spiralling into insanity since her disease confuses her mind and contradicts her logic, the paper parallels her mental state at this point.
Kamara Bellis Buckner English 1301 25 JUN 09 The Victorian Woman’s Insane Treatment in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” During the Victorian era, woman were to be dependant and obedient of their husbands. They were not allowed to pursue careers or interests. Gilman, being a woman of this time experienced this oppression first hand. She had been diagnosed with a nervous condition and was ordered to bed rest after the birth of her child. This ill-fated treatment prescribed by her physician Weir Mitchell, whom she referenced in her story, drove her to the brink of insanity.
Our narrator starts out being credible, and she tells us how she does not like the wallpaper at all. But as the story progresses, we can see how our narrator changes. An example of this is tells us how the pattern becomes clearer every day, “it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit.”(p.8). At this point she starts seeing various things in the wallpaper, but she still dislikes it, however later on we can see how her madness progresses and becomes a serious issue.
Jagroop Singh Carolina Ruiz English 1302 25 February 2013 Response Paper 3 “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman written long back in 1892 is story of woman struggling from mental dispersion and her husband john is her doctor for the treatment. In my opinion john treat his wife like a small girl and take care of her very sincerely. Woman also thinks john care about her as in her lines “he is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction”. (Gilman 545). But in my opinion I think her husband is the main cause of her illness as he doesn’t let her think anything and just sit alone in room with a yellow wallpaper on the wall.
Scene 2 is when Mary and Mrs Adams are shown into Mary’s accommodation, they are both shocked at how dirty and unpleasant the room is. Towards the end of scene 2 Mrs Adams does not want to leave her little girl in a place like this, but has no option. The last scene I was in was Scene 4, this is where Mary speaks to the Matron about having a day off work in order to go to an interview. Matron does not want Mary to apply, this is because the job Mary wanted was in Eastbourne and this is where Mary’s boyfriend lived, Matron is very reluctant to even let Mary ring the employer but realises its Mary’s life and she has to make her own decisions for herself. The acting style of my piece was Naturalism, and the presentation style was Realism.
Charlotte Gilman suffered from postpartum depression and as she writes her famous story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character suffers from the same disorder. John, the lady from the stories husband was a physician. After they had their baby she began suffering from depression. John takes her to the “colonial mansion, a heredity estate,” for the summer to try to cure her depression (265). He takes her to this mansion, miles away from the village, locks her in a nursery not allowing her to do any
The narrator’s insanity is caused by her husband, the treatment prescribed for her, and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper. One cause of the narrator’s insanity is the relationship between her and her husband. The narrator’s relationship with her husband is one of a father to daughter relationship. The narrator state, “John laughed at me but of course, one expects that in marriage” (Gilman 746). She is forced to live as a young child would live.
Molly McCans November 22,2011 Block 4 Pass Me the Storage Bin “ you’re living in a pig pen! This room is so gross and disgusting. How can you live like this?” Those words coming out of my moms mouth are all I can remember. So my bedroom had toys, dirty clothes, clean clothes, and trash all over the place? What was an eight year old supposed to do, I’d rather play with my Bratz dolls than clean my bedroom.
As an adolescent, Kaysen was rebellious and failed to follow regulations, which alarmed her parents. She worked shortly in a typing job and was shocked by the unconcealed sexism prevalent at the work place. Kaysen has a problem making visual sense of patterns. She also wonders if sanity is just a fantasy that people create in order to feel normal (Girl, Interrupted, 1999). This leads her to draw the conclusion that since many famous individuals had been residents of the institution, individuals with creative minds may be susceptible to mental diseases.