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ReplyDeleteThe yellow wallpaper is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It is about a woman who has a mental illness and her husband, a doctor, takes her to this house for the summer to make her better. She spends most of her time in her room where there is this horrible yellow wallpaper, which she soon gets obsessed with. It is also written in diary form.
It is set somewhere in the USA around the time when it was written. It is in the country side during the summer in the house that they are in. She spends most of her time in the room with the yellow wallpaper.
There are three main characters in this story. The first is the narrator, a woman who has a mental depression. She is a very distressed character. The next is John. He is a very good-intentioned man. He is a doctor and is the narrator’s wife. He seems to have good intentions, but he doesn’t have the right ideas to help her. The last is Jennie, John’s sister. She is also a very good intentioned person, but she just goes along with everything that John says. There is also a minor character who we know nothing about, but the narrator and John have a baby.
The story starts when they move into this house. She starts describing the wallpaper and already seems to start to get obsessed with it. She isn’t allowed to do anything, the only time she is, is during the 4th of July, when they had people over. She starts seeing patterns and sub-patterns and then eventually people in the wallpaper. Eventually, they think she is getting better. She sleeps during the day and is actually eating now. Eventually, she thinks that John and Jennie are conspiring with the wallpaper against her. Eventually, she tears off the paper and locks herself in the room. She now thinks that she is actually IN the wallpaper, and has escaped. When John comes home, she tells her this and he faints. She just goes back to her creeping, creeping over him.
This story is written in the form of a diary in the first person. The narrator gives very detailed descriptions of most things, especially the wallpaper. She gives crazy descriptions of it, saying that the patterns go off and “commit suicide”. She also uses a lot of personification, giving even the smell of the room a character. She describes the wallpaper as having big, bulging eyes and having shapes like toad-stools. She even says that the odor of the room is following her around. The use of different words such as “gnarly” also helps the amazing description. It is as if he is making her out to be a baby. She also says that the wallpaper is “committing every artistic sin” which makes you think a lot more about how bad this wallpaper must have been.
There are defiantly strong ideas of feminism here, the fact that John must be right as he is a man, and she shouldn’t have a say in the things that she can and cannot do. There is also a very creepy mood to it, as she is always using strange, detailed descriptions for the wallpaper. It also shows how some people may have been in the time, psychotic when no one knows it. Also, John also always refers to her as “little girl” or something along those lines which seems to show that men had higher status in those times and that she was a little baby compared to him, and that she should listen to what he said. It may also have to do with her just having a baby, with some kind of depression.
I found it ‘interesting’ to read this story, it was very strange. I wanted to know how it would continue, I had a feeling she would end up crazy. I liked the very detailed descriptions of the wallpaper and also the excellent use of personification.
“The Yellow Wall Paper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1892 in the New England Magazine. It is based on how a woman’s physical and mental health was, and how they were treated if they’d show any sign of independence.
ReplyDeleteThe story was based in a house that John had rented for the narrator to get better. It’s mostly set in a room that is in a colonial mansion, upstairs, with yellow wallpaper, which is where the narrator stays. The mansion is described as located in “the middle of nowhere”, so there is enough environment and nature to walk around in. But the majority of the story, almost all of it, is set in the room with the yellow wallpaper. And the story is clearly set in the USA, during the summer.
The characters of the story are John, Jennie, and the narrator. John takes care of the narrator, his wife, as her physician, placing her in a room where she will be able to sleep, as he thinks that’s what’s best for her. He’d put her in the room because she didn’t have a ‘right state of mind’, although she was clearly fine. Jennie is the husband’s, John’s, sister, who takes care of the narrator at some parts but mostly does small chores around the house. Then there’s the narrator, who seemed to be fine at the beginning of the story, but as the story progresses she seems to go more and more insane, whereas she was fine at first. Also, the narrator had recently gone through with a birth, so her mental health would not be at its best after going through that as some seem to suffer anxiety and depression soon after.
The action of this story is basically John taking the narrator to a house to ‘cure’ her of her sickness that he believes she has. Of course, she seems perfectly fine. John places her in a room upstairs that has this distracting, horrible, yellow wallpaper that then puts the narrator in a trance. At first, the wallpaper seems as if it were just ugly, having a bad color, and just bothering her. Then slowly, she starts paying more and more attention to the wallpaper until it is about all she thinks about. She sees eyes, toadstools, prison bars, and a creeping woman set BEHIND the wallpaper, and sees them as if they move. The narrator starts to eat, and drink, more at dinner time, which is all John really observes, and so he thinks she’s getting better whereas the truth is that she isn’t. She has her mind set on the wallpaper as if it is a puzzle that she MUST figure out, at all costs, and starts getting slightly paranoid that John and Jennie are in alliance with it. She doesn’t seem to think much of anything else throughout the whole story, except for the wallpaper, and that’s what eventually drives her insane. Being locked up in that room for so long, made her think that she was one of the ‘creeping’ ladies found in the wallpaper. She ends up ripping and tearing the wallpaper down off the wall, with no real reason except as to free the lady behind it. At the end of the story, John ends up fainting as he sees how insane his wife has become because he finds her practically creeping in circles around the room, scaling the walls, thinking that it is she who came from the wallpaper and no one will ever touch it but her.
Part 1.
Tatiana T.
The style of the story is very interesting. The language is dark and rather spooky, and extremely descriptive, which sends a lot of imagery into the readers mind, making them think of things that couldn’t possibly be the wallpaper. Saying that the wallpaper committed ‘every possible artistic sin’ get’s the reader thinking that the yellow wallpaper is horrible to look at, and yet at the same time the narrator describes it as though it is very interesting so the reader then sees it as the author does. The story is written in first person, and grips the reader’s attention with a variety of interesting and captivating words, that made the reader think a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteThe ideas of the story really get into your mind. The way the author describes much of the wallpaper makes the reader see things from the narrator’s point of view, and therefore becoming interested in the wallpaper as well. There definitely seems like there is a bit of sexism in this story, as it talks about how some women were treated at times, treated as if they were mental when they clearly weren’t. And the way John addresses his WIFE, calling her ‘little girl’ and talking about her, in third person, as if she’s not standing/sitting there right in front of him. It is obvious that John doesn’t have much respect for her, but she believes she is being treated for a sickness so doesn’t think much of it.
I thought this story was very interesting and a bit spooky. At times, I just thought that the woman (the narrator) was definitely out of her mind, which she apparently was, and the way the author described the wall paper made it all the more creepy. It was definitely fun to read, and the author knew how to keep the reader’s attention from wandering.
-Tatiana T
Part 2
The Yellow Wall Paper
ReplyDeleteSCASI Essay
This story was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the year of 1892. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, novelist and writer of short stories. She had written this story “The Yellow Wall Paper” after a severe of post-partum depression which clearly explains where she got the idea from.
The story was probably set in the year of 1892 in the United States of America in one of the summer season months. It is in a house which John rented, however the woman spends most of her time in her room with the yellow wall paper.
The characters in this story are very descriptive, there is the woman who is going insane, the man who's name is John and he is her husband and of course the yellow wall paper. We do not know the name of the characters but these characters must be in their 30s for sure as they are married and use a very descriptive language.
The story is mostly about a woman going insane slowly because of her husband. We do not know the name of the woman however, we know that her husband, John drives her insane and through that she becomes mentally sick. She begins to stare at the wall paper and imagining patterns and sub-patterns. Her husband does not want her to go outside or do anything while is not home. She later stops eating while her husband is not there. But when he is there, she eats. This might be taking up some time while he is not in the house. This woman also has a child who is very young, still a baby, and she is not allowed to see her own child. Her man forbade her. What sort of man is he for doing so!
The style of this story is very descriptive especially how the woman describes the patterns she sees in the yellow wall paper. The atmosphere in this story began with as a warm and interesting atmosphere but turned into a very cold and spooky atmosphere as it came slowly to an end.
The ideas are to make a continuation of this story as it stopped very unusual.
I enjoyed reading this story and writing about it, it brought many different images to me as we read through it. It was very well and descriptive written and very easy to understand. Charlotte Perkins Gilman might have been through a hard time when writing this story.
The Yellow Wall Paper
ReplyDeleteThe yellow wall paper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a women and her husband who go to a nice house for their summer, and the women who is ill becomes paranoid over some yellow wall paper.
The story is set in a nice house in the USA. It is summer time, but most of the story is set in a room with the yellow wall paper.
The main characters are the narrator who isn’t named, John and Jennie. The narrator is quite ill at the beginning but her husband John tells her to rest and not think about her illness. She is left in the room most of the summer and becomes very paranoid and obsessed with the wall paper. John is the narrators husband who is a doctor, and isn’t at home to look after his wife, he just tells her to rest. Jennie is John’s sister who helps look after the narrator and the baby, who is a minor character in the story.
The story begins with the family, moving into their holiday home. The narrator is told to spend her time in the room with the wallpaper, and she isn’t allowed to do anything, not even right but she manages to sneak into writing a diary. Each day she looks at the wall paper and describes how horrid and unappealing it is. She becomes obsessed and paranoid with it and she says that there is a women creeping through the wall paper, she then thinks that she herself came from the wall paper and eventually she loses it completly and ends up ripping the wall paper and John walks in and faints while she just continues creeping around the room and ripping off the wallpaper.
The story is written in diary from in the first person, but sometimes swaps into the third person, like when John speaks to her, he never seems to adress her by her name. The narrator uses alot of strong language and very descriptive language especially when she describes the wall paper and how unappealing it is. She goes into saying that the wallpaper is coming suicide and that it is horrid. She even describes how the wall paper smells ‘ A yellow type of smell’ so the language used is quite describtive.
The main idea of this story to me is mysterious, wierd, creepy and depression. The story seems quite depressing as the women seems to be ‘locked’ in this room, and tormented by the paper. Its hell for her as she just has to sit their and look at this wallpaper all day, everyday for the entire summer. Mysterious because we never do find out why John fainted, and what became of the narrator and also if the narraotr was actually mental or that the wallpaper was actually.. possesed ?
All in all it was a good story, but i have to admit it did creep me out ! :)
SCASI Essay - THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
ReplyDelete"The Yellow Wall Paper' is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It mainly consists of diary entries by a woman with a 'mental' problem (we think) and how she observes this yellow wallpaper, first hating it, and then starting to actually become it.
It is set in the 1890's. It was set in a very big house owned by a wealthy couple in the countryside in the US. The diary entries were often set in the brightly lit room at the top of the house that contained the yellow wallpaper. I think the season was around summertime.
The characters in the story include the narrator, the middle-aged woman with the 'temporary nervous depression' who is the main character of the story. Then there is her husband, John, who is a physician who cares about her but tells her the exact wrong things to help cure her from her illness. There are as well some minor characters like Jennie, John's sister, who is very kind to the narrator and a favorite of hers.
This story starts with the narrator and her husband arriving at this enormous, beautiful house, where they will stay for the summer. They came there for space and silence so that the narrator will be able to overcome her illness. The diary entries are mainly about how she spends every day sitting on her bed, in her bright-lit room looking at what seems to be at first ugly and disgusting wallpaper, but then she becomes very intrigued by it. She studies it each day behind her husband’s back, and then writes down her observations in her diary of the patterns and her thoughts of the lady creeping behind the wall. By the end she becomes so obsessed by the wallpaper that she actually imagines that she is inside the wall, i.e., the lady trapped behind it.
The language style of "The Yellow Wallpaper" has many variations. The whole story comprises her diary entries and so of course the story is a first-person view of the situation. It is very descriptive, especially in the entries in which she writes about the yellow wallpaper. Here she explains how it looks like night and day and how she then sees a woman creeping behind it. The diary entries are also about her opinion of the people around her. You can see the change in her point of view throughout the story whereas first she's pretty normal, but towards the end, her state of mind turns to paranoia and she thinks in terms of the lady and the wall. By then she thinks that no one could understand her or help her with her illness. It is also written quite dramatically at stages of the story with dashes showing how she needs to break off her writing because of Jennie or John coming in to check on her. She does this because she is writing behind their backs and they cannot know about this. Her writing contributes to her madness.
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ReplyDeleteThe main themes and ideas of this story explore to great depth this woman's insanity. The main themes include depression, paranoia, insanity, and feminism. This story has a moral under all its confusion and madness; that to isolate and patronize a person with a mental illness will not help them get better, but in fact could have quite the opposite effect. Also to show that the methods John used to cure her mental illness were not effective. By the end of the story, the writer told us that the 'rest cure' - not involving yourself in any literary activities like writing, painting or working in any job - does the exact opposite of a 'cure'. It gave the narrator more time to think about her sickness and to observe her surroundings, which in fact caused everything to get worse. Also, when John told her not to think about her condition, it had the exact opposite effect, since the mention of it just made her think more about it. The 'rest cure,' in addition, refers back to the theme of feminism. John forcing her not to work at all or participate in a job is a way of not giving a woman her rights. He didn't present it as a way of being sexist, but the way he called her names like “silly goose”, “dear”, “darling”, “child,” etc., sounded like he was talking to a little helpless child who didn't know better and couldn't handle everything by herself. He made her feel trapped in that room, which refers to the ending when she mentions that she's at last come out of the wallpaper, in spite of him and Jennie. This shows furthermore how they trapped her inside that room and inside herself with her thoughts, which is quite dangerous, we realize now, in her condition.
In conclusion, this story is very cleverly presented. In the beginning I thought it was pretty peculiar and actually a bit boring, to be honest. But as I advanced further into the story it became very interesting and actually a bit entertaining, particularly when the narrator talked about the wallpaper as if it was one of the great wonders of the world. But the ideas and discussions it created in class became in-depth, as there was so much to discuss about her madness and psychological changes throughout the story. I really liked it towards the end and was satisfied with the ending, with the drama of John fainting and the narrator actually becoming the creeping woman behind the wallpaper.
The Yellow Wall Paper
ReplyDeleteThe short story “The Yellow Wall Paper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1892. As the title says, it is about a yellow wallpaper, a woman and her mental conditions.
The story is set in a big rented house, probably set in America. It is beginning of summer at the beginning of the story, and it ends with the end of summer. Most of the story takes place in a big room, with a yellow wallpaper and a bed. In this room, the narrator sleeps. The room is upstairs and has big windows and apart from the wallpaper, it seems to be a really nice room. We don’t get to know a lot from the rest of the house or the environment because the narrator stays in her room most of the time. We can also say that the environment must have been really nice and somewhere in the country side, because the narrator’s husband has taken her to this house so that she could get better.
The main character in this story is the narrator who writes this story as her diary. She is married to John and they both move in to this house for the summer. We don’t get to know her name but we know about her that she is mother of a newborn baby but she isn’t allowed to take care of it because her conditions doesn’t seem to be good enough. But I think that at the beginning she seems to be alright, probably a bit nervous or over imaginative. However, as we read on in the story, her mental condition gets worse and worse but her physical conditions get better. That’s why John, her husband, seems to think the house and his advice was helping her. John is a very kind man, a doctor, and he seems to want the best for his wife, but his advice to her – to rest and not do anything but sleep – doesn’t help her at all. She believes in her husband a lot, especially at the beginning. Later she gets suspicious. Then there is also John’s sister, Jenny, who helps with the house.
The story starts with the narrator and John moving into the house for the summer, so the narrator could get better. Her husband told her to rest a lot and sleep a lot, and not to do any work. She gets a big room which has a lot of fresh air and sun, but also a yellow, old wall paper. She hates the wall paper at the beginning. She sees a lot of things in it. John thinks that she’s getting better and better during the story. Her physical conditions got better, but her mental condition didn’t improve – it got even worse. She got more and more obsessed by the wall paper, seeing things in it and imagining to see women and heads and eyes there. She is very sure about seeing women creeping there and then she thinks she has to rescue the woman out of the paper. At the end of the summer, she locks herself in the room, tears and ripps down the wall paper. She believes that the woman from the wallpaper has been rescued, and then she also thinks,that she is actually one of the women that came from the wallpaper. John later comes into the room, after he found the key, and he finds his wife creeping in the room. He faints at the very end, after he sees how insane his wife became.
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PART 1
The story is written in diary entries from the narrator. She writes from the beginning to the end of summer, but leaves spaces between the entries which are always about one or two weeks long or probably more. The way she writes and describes what she thinks and feels, makes us see everything with other eyes. We can’t imagine the wall paper as something ordinary anymore, we see it as something moving and alive – we see it through her eyes. And we also get really interested in the wallpaper. Probably, we cannot compare ourselves with the narrator so good, because she isn’t like an ordinary person, but it still makes it really interesting, and at some points even funny to see the way she thinks about what is happening. We can hardly understand how she is able to see such an amount of things in just a wallpaper or how she got to the conclusion, that Jenny and John are planning against her with the wallpaper. But even though what she thinks is so insane, and probably a bit childish, - with her huge amount of imagination -, we can still follow the steps she does, and it’s really interesting to follow how the story changes so quickly. Her hate turning into obsession and her feeling that she is no help for John turning into the feeling that she is being betrayed by John and Jenny.
ReplyDeleteThe ideas of the story are feminism and imagination. Feminism because John treats his wife in a way that seems to us as very unrespectfull and not letting her disagree with him even though what he thinks is good for her isn’t good for her at all. That he treats her that way was probably normal in that time, or probably he did that because he really thought it would help her with her illness. He thought it was the best for her, to not do anything and to not worry about anything. And by talking with her like she was a little child, it probably gave her the feeling that she wasn’t responsible for anything and that she didn’t have to worry about anything. Imagination is everywhere in this story, as the narrator is so imaginative. At the beginning, her imagination is acceptable. She probably sees in things a bit too much life and she makes conclusions that doesn’t make sense. But as we go on with the story, her imagination turns into a real insanity ad obsession in the wall paper. She sees the women and sees them crawling and at the very end, she sees herself as one of them and creeps around the room herself. She got really insane and lives in her own imagination.
This story was really well written and it was a very creepy story. At the beginning, I enjoyed the narrator’s fantasies and the way she described everything in detail. Then she started to get obsessed and crazy and it really made me want to read on and on, to see what will happen. Just like her, I really wanted to figure out, what the wall paper was about. The ending of the story was so strange, but also really scary because she got so crazy. But I really want to know what will happen now, because the way the story ends, I can’t possibly imagine what will happen after that – after John fainted and she creeped around the room.
PART 2
Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It is about a woman’s sickness during the summer. Her husband tries to help cure her sickness by forcing her to rest throughout their stay in the house.
The story is set in a room in a large rented house. It is summer time in the USA. There is a brief mention of a garden. The focus of the story is the wallpaper in this room.
There are 3 main characters. They are the narrator, a woman who is ‘sick’ that spends day and night in the house, rarely leaving the room. She seems to become very mentally ill and agitated. Her husband is called John he is a physician is mentioned a lot. He prescribes her to stay in her room and relax. He doesn't seem to harm the narrator intentionally, but his ideas are not helping her. The final character mentioned is John's sister. Her name is Jennie. She seems to be a nice person. The narrator's baby is barely mentioned as it is looked after.
The story begins when the Narrator and her husband move in. She becomes obsessed with the wallpaper. The narrator begins trrying to find patterns and sub-patterns. She can't do much more other than this as she isn't allowed to leave. On 4th July, people do come round. After this, we start to think that this woman has really lost it. It seems that her condition is deterierating even though John believes she is improving. The narrator begins to like the wallpaper and grows an attatchment to it. In the end, she ripps off the wallpaper and locks herself in her room. John finally realises how much his wife has lost it. He then faints.
This story is written in 1st person in a diary form. The narrator uses a lot of hyperbole during the story, especially at the start when commenting about the wallpaper. She often talks about what has been happening since her last entry. There is also use of personification during the story when the narrator talks about the smell of the wall.
As this story was written in the late 19th century, people considered men as the superior sex. There is an idea of men knowing what's best when clearly John doesn't. There is also a theme of confinment which is clearly shown throughout the story. The narrator brings a creepy feel with her mental sickness. She seems to be predictable but unpredictable at the same time.
I enjoyed the story. At first, I thought it would be a bit boring, but I was wrong. It had humor and a very detailed story.
The Yellow Wall Paper.
ReplyDeleteIn the class we read the story called "the yellow wall paper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It’s about a woman who is writing a secret journal mostly about the yellow wallpaper.
The setting of this story takes place in USA during the summer in the big house in the country side. This house is a haunted house by the narrator’s opinion. It’s quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. House has a "delicious" garden with box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbours and seats under them. Narrator spends most of the time in the room with big windows which let in a lot of fresh air. Also she has a big bed and the Yellow wall paper ripped in some places.
Characters in this story were the narrator it was the woman whose name we do not know. She was ill but her husband John was taking a good care about her he was a doctor but his advices just made the matter worse. Narrator had a baby which she loved but couldn’t be near him/her because of her unstable condition. We don’t know too much about the baby but we know that Jenny John's sister was looking after her/him and also she was helping to keep the house clean.
The story starts when John with his wife are renting a new house far away in the country side to make narrator feel better. John made her follow the plan by the end of which she had to feel better. She had to lie in the bed and sleep all the time. She couldn’t work or do any physical activities at all. Narrator couldn’t stand like that long so she starts to write a secret diary which she hides from everybody. She was sitting in her room all the time and looking at hideous wallpaper and she hated it so much that she wanted to rip it all. However, narrator didn’t have anything else to do and it becomes her everyday routine. Then she became to think that the yellow wallpaper actually was helping her. Every day she was searching for a new pattern. More and more time she was spending in her room looking at the wall paper and writing her diary while everyone was thinking that she was sleeping. John was thinking that she was better now. Narrator got physical improvement however her mental health was worse than before. She was seeing women behind the wall paper trying to get out of there. At the end she was completely insane that she was thinking that she was one of the women who came out of the wall paper and was afraid that someone will put her back. On the last day of summer when they had to move from the house she locked herself in the room and threw key out of the window. She ripped all the yellow wallpaper from the walls and was crawling over and over it around the room. When her husband came into the room he just fainted when saw his wife in that condition. Like that the story ends.
This story is written from the first person. Author wrote this story like a diary because we can see several diaries enters. Each diary enter has three or two weeks of description in it. John always talks to his wife in third person and he never calls her by a name. Instead of the name he use some cute nicknames like: “silly goose”,“dear”, “darling”, “child” Author uses a descriptive language in the “The Yellow Wall Paper” story which includes a lot of details in it. Also author uses a lot of Hyperboles in it to describe feelings of narrator and things in the house like the yellow wall paper.
This story is a very clever written one it shows that everyone needs an attention and good care. I liked how author described things it was very clear. And the way of ending was original because you don’t know what really happened is the narrator completely lost her mind or not? I enjoyed reading this story.
Polina
The Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe yellow wallpaper is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in 1892 and it is about a woman that is ‘Ill’ and is obsessed with this ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ as she thinks that there is something more about. Her husband is called John and he is a physician who tends to her and helps her get ‘better’
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is set somewhere in the US and they are in a house somewhere in the country, the story takes place in the summer. The narrator spends a lot of her time in her room that has a large bed, and is surrounded by ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ and eventually goes mad because of it.
There are a few characters in this story, the first one being the narrator, is a woman who in the beginning is ill according to her husband, but eventually during the time she is at home becomes mad and crazy because of the wallpaper. The next one is John, who is the narrator’s husband and is a physician who tends to the narrator but also addresses her as a ‘child’ although he has a good intention to help her, he doesn’t seem to be helping her that much. The last character is Jennie, who is the John’s sister, she is good and takes care of the narrator’s child but is also trying to help her in the same way that John is.
The story starts off with them moving into their new home, the narrator seems to compare it with a haunted house. John believes that the narrator is not sick and that she is just imagining it but helps her none the less, the story then goes on about how the narrator stays in this old room that seemed to be a child’s play area once before, she sees a large bed, some furniture and the ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ that seemed to look like broken necks and lines committing suicide. The writer writes a diary entry every once and a while since that is the only thing that she can do, as John has told her that she can’t take care of her child, go out with friends or even go out. John works in the city so he is out for almost the whole day so the narrator starts to slowly become obsessed with the ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ then when the Fourth of July came, people came to visit the narrator and John so she had company, when they left she was very tired. She then continues to follow the pattern on the wallpaper, becoming more and more obsessed with it every day, she then finally becomes completely mad and believes that she had come out of the wallpaper and feels that she is free at last, with no help from John or Jennie.
The story is written in first person and is told in several Diary entries, this is a good idea as in each diary entry there is a lot of description on the Yellow Wallpaper and how with each diary entry the narrator becomes more and more ‘Mad’ Charlotte also use Personification as the narrator often refers to the wallpaper as being real and that there are women creeping out of the wallpaper, that it has bulging eyes, the lines committing suicide and toadstools growing all over the place. She also uses words such as “Gnawed” and other words that heighten the description.
In the story there is a sense that John in that time was a higher position than the narrator as he uses words and phrases such as “Darling” and “Little Girl” to make her sound as if she was a baby, this also indicated that males in that time may have been ‘superior’ than woman, thus the women having to obey their commands. There was also a lot of describing the wall paper that the narrator was obsessed with and this helps you understand just how bad it actually looked and how it could possibly make you ‘mad’ or ‘loony’ and I must say it worked very well.
I must say that this was one of the ‘creepier’ stories that we have read and I quite enjoyed it. Again with all the stories, this one was different as it more or less focused on one main thing, and this thing was as simple as well Yellow Wallpaper, and the author managed to create a story just by having this woman go crazy from staring at yellow wallpaper for hours on end. Brilliant!
The Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the year of 1892. I think the genre is most likely to be a psychological and sort of ‘creepy’ story.
The story seems to be set inside a house for most of the time in the United States of America. The story doesn’t tell us when it was set exactly, so it might have been set in the year of 1892, when the story was written.
The characters of the short story are the narrator who is the main character and we do not find out her actual name. The narrator seems to be mentally ill but physically she is alright. When she was young, she was always alone and always used to sit in an empty room, which somehow gave her a very wild imagination for her own entertainment. The other character is John, the physician. John is the kind of person that thinks he knows exactly everything of what is best for the narrator and does not enjoy letting her have her say. He is clueless about the fact that she is mentally ill, but he’d rather think she is physically ill and makes her eat and rest constantly. The last character is Jennie who is John’s sister. Jennie often assists John and the narrator when it comes to cooking and cleaning.
The plot of the story is about a husband and his wife moving in a great and magnificent house for the summer. They went there for a peaceful and spacious atmosphere as his wife was mentally ill, and he thought this environment would help her recovery. She had spent most of her time inside a bedroom, with hideously yellow wallpaper covering it. Day by day, she would stare continuously as if something had been lurking behind it. She eventually starts to observe it more, and writes down more things about it every day of her observations. She eventually became so obsessed with it, that she became paranoid that there was a pattern to it and that she was imagining/seeing people behind the yellow wallpaper. At the end, her husband fainted with shock after seeing what had become of his own wife.
The style of this story is very strange, as it is often told as a story from a diary or sometimes in the present. It is also very descriptive, especially when she is describing the yellow wall paper and the walls surrounding her. The diary entries are basically told from her, as there would be scenes were she would be saying ‘I am observing it constantly, but John arrived so I must go’. It is as if she is talking to the paper she is writing on.
The main ideas about this short story are that it goes into great depth of the insanity of a woman. The themes of this story were basically depression, insanity and a bit of hatred. Depression as of what had been happening to her, and how this all worried her husband John and Jennie greatly. Also because she is being pressured a lot by her husband that she needs mental help but she keeps on refusing as she thinks there is nothing wrong with her. Insanity because since she was always spending her time in a room with the yellow wall paper, observing it constantly, she started thinking as if there was some sort of ‘pattern’ that could unlock ‘mysterious’ to her mind. She had also been thinking that she was being trapped inside the wall paper, or that people were creeping behind the wall paper. Aggression because she was being so paranoid, that at the end of the story she was starting to show more aggression and disrespect towards John and Jennie.
Overall, I enjoyed reading the story quite a lot. The descriptions that were involved in this short story made it more and more interesting to read by the page. I also found it interesting as of how when she is writing in her diary, it is in the present as she would say exactly when she ‘had to go’ and why. This story also created a bit of confusion and tension as of the way she acted, and how much insanity and paranoia that she had towards the yellow wallpaper.
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‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a very famous short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story was written in the year 1892, making it quite an old story.
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is set probably at the time it was written. Like most of the short stories in the pack, there aren’t any items that would make the story seem like it was in the past, and there aren’t any overly unheard of technological items that would make the story set in the future. Also, they way the narrator is treated and some the way of living suggests that the story is set either in the late 1800s or the early 1900s. The story is set in the house the narrator and her husband move in while their old house is being fixed. The house is really big, but it also seems to be haunted; there are especially weird things going on in the bedroom that the narrator and her husband stay in.
There aren’t many characters in this story. The main character in the story is the narrator. We never actually learn her name, but we know that she is married and that she has moved into a house that she first describes as being haunted. Another character is the narrator’s husband, called John. He is a physician and is trying to help the narrator recover from some kind of sickness he thinks she has. A more irrelevant character is Jennie, who is John’s brother and helps around the house by cleaning, look after the baby, etc. All three of these characters seem to have some kind of connection with the wallpaper in the room that the narrator and John sleep in. There are also the creeping ladies that the narrator gives a lot of attention to near the end of the story, but they aren’t important characters throughout the story.
The story begins with the narrator and her husband moving into a big house that the narrator describes as being haunted. The reason they moved there was because their other house was being fixed, as far as I know. They choose the biggest room to sleep in, and the first thing the narrator realizes about the wallpaper is the color and the pattern. In other words, she doesn’t like it at all to begin with, but she still agrees to stay in the room. From then on, the story is basically about the narrator studying the wallpaper and trying to learn things about it. She realizes that it seems to change as the light in the room changes. She then thinks that she sees women creeping about behind the wallpaper, and then she even says she sees them outside. She is also very selfish about it. She doesn’t want anyone else to observe the wallpaper but her, because she wants to figure it out herself. Then, all of a sudden, she says that she is one of the creeping women (this is almost at the end of the story) and that she really likes creeping. She even says how her shoulder fits in the long smooch around the wall. The story finishes as John walks into the room and sees her creeping, and faints, and she says she has to creep over him every time.
This story is written in the first person, and it is in the present tense. It is in the form of a diary. The author seems to suddenly put in events or change the story so the reader is surprised while reading it. I think this is a strategy to keep the reader reading, and it does work. Also, the author finishes sentences in such a way that they are all cliff-hangers.
The main themes in the story are that it is disturbing, as some of the writing is so detailed that it creates an image in the reader’s head.
Personally, I like this story, because I like stories that are in diary form because they are more different and they are in the present tense. I also like it because it creates a sense of suspense while I am reading it which makes it more fun to read. The only problem I had with this story is the ending. I would have liked it better if it was longer and had finishes in a more ‘ending’ way, because when I finished reading this story, the first thing that I thought of was “What happens next?”
The Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a renowned writer. The story was written in 1892. The story is about a women who is going through some metal problems. He husband moves his family to the country for the summer, where the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room. The narration of the story is in diary form.
The story is set in the America around 1890. It takes place in American countryside during the summer. The narrator's husband rents a house for the summer. The house is described to be a “colonial mansion” and “haunted”. The narrator spends most of her time in the mansion's nursery, the nursery is covered yellow wallpaper which is described to be “sprawling with flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.” The room seems to be full of light and has many windows, however the windows are all barred. The room is “a big airy room”.
There are three main characters in the story, the first is the narrator who we never learn the name of. She is a dubbed a mentally unstable person, by her husband John. She has just had a baby, however she does not feel well enough to look after the baby by herself so her husband's sister, Jennie, looks after the baby. The narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room, and slowly her mental situation worsens. John is a physician who is in the background for a greater part of the story. He is unaware of his wife's situation. He treats his wife like a child giving her nicknames like, “silly goose”. Jennie is not really in the main part of the story however she gives you the image of there being something going on in the narrator's life other than the wallpaper.
The story begins in the beginning of the summer when the narrator's family moves into a house of the summer. The narrator and her husband move into the house's nursery and the narrator is immediately is effected by the yellow wallpaper which covers the room. John advises the narrator not to do anything, especially no writing. The narrator disobeys this rule and keeps a dairy. The narrator becomes more and more interested in the wallpaper of the room. She starts seeing patterns and sub-patterns in merging, these patterns later turn into people, women who are being “straggled” by the pattern. The colour is “faded” in some parts and is a sickly yellow. The narrator becomes so obsessed with this wallpaper that she even believes it has a smell to it, she describes this smell as a “yellow smell”. Throughout the story she gives a lot of personification like “The paper looks to be as if it knew what a vicious influence”. The narrator had an objective, she would figure out the paper before they left. So now the narrator only slept during the day and watched at night. John started to believe that she was better as she was eating all her meals, how wrong he had been. She starts to believe that John and Jennie are on the wallpaper's side. At the end of the story, in their last few days at the mansion she rips off all the paper and locks her self in the room. She say that she immediately feels better, but when John came home and saw what had happened he fainted.
The story is written in first person in dairy form. The story doesn't use any direct dialogue. The story is full of description, “old-fashioned flowers”. The story uses personification, most of the personification occurs when the writer describes the wall paper as really the wallpaper becomes its own character throughout the story. As well as personification I believe that the writer uses metaphors as it feels like the wallpaper is a metaphor of her life, her marriage and situation.
Valentina Spiteri
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ReplyDeleteThe story has ideas of feminism and themes of marriage. The feminist idea is a strong one as John has a higher knowledge and treats his wife like she is a child. However the story was written in a time were women had no to few rights and the writer could be simplify reflecting this in her story. The theme of marriage is in no regards to a happy marriage but to one were the woman has no say and the man is oblivious to the women's real feelings and has no interest in hearing them. There is also a faint idea of abandonment which is seen when the narrator's baby is hardly mentioned to be with her. This could be another metaphor for John abandoning her in her time of need.
The story was very interesting and confusing to read at the same time. It deals with heavy issues of marriage and feminism, however it does so indirectly so you are constantly guessing. I thought the story was very good and was written and set in one of my favourite eras to read about.
Valentina Spiteri
Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It is about mentally ill.
It is set in the summer in the USA. It is all set in a big mansion where she lives and spends her time in. It is a rundown and needs some work. Especially the wall paper.
There is one main actor whos name we don’t know. She is the narrator of the story and is mental. Her husband John who treats her like a child is physician and tells her to stay at home and literally do nothing. She is mentally ill. Jennie is Johns sister who takes care of the narrators baby.
The story is basically about the narrator being mental. She in the beginning of the story seems quiet normal. But in the end she is just is really crazy she starts saying that the Yellos Wall Paper looks like frogs and that it is committing suicide. John doesn’t let her write or pretty much do anything. In the end she locks her self in the house and then John breaks the door open and she faints.
The story is written in 1st person in diary form. The story is written with a lot of personification like saying that the wall paper is dying. It is written in a negative way.
The story is written in the 19th century which is probably why the male is more important than the females. John thinks he knows what is best for her but she doesn’t. She is very upset but still listens to her husband.
I really like this story i think the whole crazyness is good. It was a bit long though but or else it was really good.
kimberly merten
The Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman with a mental issue witch turns into a bigger illness. Her husband is taking care of her and he recommends lots of rest, but that is the worst thing she could have with that type of mental illness. She is taken to a bigger, different house and she spends most of her time in a room looking at this blessed wallpaper. She gets obsessed with it and keeps a journal of her days there.
The Yellow Wallpaper is set in the USA and in the time when it was written. It is also placed in the country side in most of the summer in a summer house. She spends lots of her time in a room with an annoying yellow wallpaper.
There are three main characters in the Yellow Wallpaper. The first is the narrator. Her name is not mentioned but we know she is female and is in a mental depression. She is getting more and more depressed by the time goes by. The second character we meet is John. John Is a good man who cares greatly about his wife, the narrator. He is a doctor and he is trying to heal his wife from her mental depression by subscribing and giving her loads of pills and rest. She knows its not good for her but he thinks he is doing good. The last character we meet is Jennie. Jennie is John’s sister. She is also very helpful and caring toward the narrator. Lastly there is a minor character, a nanny who takes care of John and the narrator’s baby.
The story starts when John and his wife move into a new house. She starts describing the yellow wallpaper that they have in their room and starts to make a secret diary of her days. She seems to get crazier and crazier. She is already obsessed with it in the beginning. She tries to figure out the pattern of the wallpaper often and she says it has 2 layers too it. She also says that it is not really a pattern and its not symmetrical and so on. It makes me scared how much she actually describes the wallpaper. She later starts to see sub-patterns to the patterns and eventually people, women in the wallpaper. After a while John and Jennie who had been helping her out start to think she is getting better, but she states that she is only getting better in body, but not in mind. Later in the story her paranoia increases and she thinks that John and Jennie are conspiring with the wallpaper against her. In the end her paranoia explodes out of her and she starts to rip off the wallpaper whilst John is out of the house. She then locks herself in her room. She now thinks that she is one of the women in the wallpaper and that the woman before, said to be creeping was actually her. She then thinks a that at the end of the story she had escaped the wallpaper and she is now creeping all over John. When John comes back she tells him what she said and he faints. She just goes back to her creeping, creeping over him.
This story is written in the form of a diary. It is also written in the first person. The narrator gives away the detailed descriptions of most of the things like the wallpaper. We probably in the story know more about the wallpaper than the narrator herself. The description in the story is amazing. She gives crazy descriptions of it. She talks about the patterns and how they “commit suicide” when they meet each other. She also uses personification like how she can smell it and how the feel of it and the stains it leaves on the people’s clothes. She later in the story sees more about the wallpaper after studying it for long and she describes the wallpaper as having big, bulging eyes and having shapes like toad-stools. She even states that it has a special odour in the room that follows her. Also the fact that she is not with her new born baby is terrible and brings her further away from civilisation.
The Yellow Wallpaper Continued
ReplyDeleteThere are many different ideas about the story, such as the idea of feminism and the fact that John is a man and doesn’t realise what she can or cant do and so on. The way she describes the wallpaper shows how depressed she was and how much free time she had on the hands. Also, John always refers to her as “little girl” or other very silly names. He also talks to her in the THIRD PERSON which makes her sound like some kind of animal or pet.
I LOVED this story. I think it was the best on of them all. It is very interesting as it shows the different point of views of people and how they interact with each other in different ways. Also I really want to know how it continues as it gives such suspense still hanging that it annoys me. I though she was crazy from the start, but not that crazy. I hope there will be more interesting stories like this one in the future.
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ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper is one of many short stories written by Charlotte Gilman. The story is about a woman with some nervous issues who obsesses about the wallpaper in the room she stays in, and how it affects her.
ReplyDeleteThe story is set in what we assume to be late 19th century America, in a large house that the narrator’s husband is renting. The story takes place over one summer without leaving the rented house. Because the story is told from a narrator who spends most of her time in one room, most of the story is told from inside it. Inside the room there is a bed with gnawed posts, firmly attached to the floor, several windows and most importantly the wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper that is, its pattern is described as atrocious and horrible, it is this wallpaper that the narrator fantasizes about so much.
There aren't a lot of characters in the story, in fact we only actually meet three of them. First and foremost there is the narrator who remains unnamed throughout the story, she has a nervous depression that is the reason why she spends so much time 'resting' in her room. The next main character is the husband of the narrator, John. John is a high standing physician who prescribes the paradoxical (I believe that is the correct spelling) treatment of rest to his wife. The last character that we meet is Jenny, who is John's sister. There is also Mary who helps take care of the narrator's baby and does household jobs. Perhaps a character that doesn't physically exist but is referred to several times in the story is the 'creeping woman' who lurks behind the pattern of the wallpaper and escapes at certain times.
The short story begins with the first diary entry by the narrator (we find out on the first page that the story is set in undated diary entries) from inside the room with the yellow wallpaper in their new rented summer house. The narrator's husband has prescribed rest to help her deal with her 'nervous depression', so the narrator spends most of her day inside the room with the Yellow Wallpaper. Secretly the narrator keeps her own diary, which is the whole short story, that her husband doesn't know about. As the days go by the narrator begins obsessing more and more with the Yellow Wallpaper in the room, trying to follow its patterns and figure out what they may be. She stops thinking about other things and focuses on the Wallpaper, even lying to her own husband. She even gets to the point where she is absolutely convinced that there is a woman who creeps behind the wallpaper and sometimes creeps out, all the while her husband thinks she is getting better. As her hatred and intrigue for the wallpaper increases, she becomes very fond of the wallpaper and begins to creep around as if she were the woman previously stated. When the last day at the house comes,and long after it is clear that the narrator is several tiles short of a roof, she locks her self in the room and precedes to 'creep' around the room. When John manages to get into the room, he faints when he hears his wife say that she wasn't going back into the wallpaper.
'The Yellow Wallpaper' is written in the first person in the form of diary entries where dialogue is shown as quotes, often littered with the narrator's thoughts and reports. However some times when John talks to the narrator he speaks to her as if she weren't there, and as if she was a child rather than an adult. When the narrator isn't talking about her thoughts or dialogs, she is very descriptive about her surroundings, especially about the wallpaper. She talks with very strong conviction about the wallpaper, with its 'bulging eyes' and atrocious patterns.
The main theme and idea of this story is probably insanity by isolation. The narrator is forced to spend too much time in a room with a condition that makes her think about worry about things. As the story progresses we see how she loses control of her sanity and rationale, and by the end of the story she has tied her self to the bed and believes that she came from inside of the wallpaper and refuses to let John put her back inside. Another idea of the story is perhaps the old fashioned medicine that John practises, what with phosphates tonics and ales, and how it clearly does not work at all. In fact Johns treatment makes his wife worse and worse but he doesn't see it.
ReplyDeleteOverall I found the story quite interesting and written well, especially considering it is probably quite difficult to write as an insane person without being just a little bit crazy yourself. I enjoyed the way that her insanity built up from just a nervous depression as you read on through the story, and strange way that the story ended, with the narrator creeping around a room, tied to her bed and stepping over her unconswcious husband.
The Yellow Wallpaper
ReplyDeleteThe “Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Gilman in 1892, and is one of the short stories that she released. The general idea of the story is that of the deterierating condition of a woman, and her husband’s views as a physician.
The setting of the story is in the late 19th century America (presumed), but in no specific location, but typical rural America. More specificly, a house that they are staying in, a large, creepy looking house, that the narrator and her husband are renting for the summer. The narrator finds that in her room there is a horrible yellow wallpaper, that she hates so much, that she becomes totally attached to, and won’t stop thinking about.
We only meet three characters in the story. the main character, the narrator, is a woman, who doesn’t have a name in the story, and she seems quite young, maybe late twenties, early thirties. She is “ill” according to her husband, and she is forced to stay in her room, which has a horrible yellow wallpaper, that she hates so much, but eventually fantasizes about. John, her husband, is a physician, and so thinks he knows what to do to help his wife. He makes her do no activity what so ever, and she has to stay in the room all day. He means well, and loves his wife. Finally, there is Jenny, John’s sister, who helps out around the house, and keeps the narrator company. There is a “creeping woman” in the wallpaper according to the narrator, although this could hardly count as a character.
The story starts with a diary entry (the whole story is written in the form of many diary entries) about the narrator and her husband, John moving into a summer house for a few months. The narrator mentions that her room has a disgusting, revolting yellow wallpaper, thats ripped and dirty. Her husband has prescribed her to rest a lot to help with her “illness”, and not to write, although she secretly does. In diary entry after diary entry, the narrator goes into great detail about the wallpaper, each time seeming to pay more attention to it, and notice more things about it, and even loving to hate it, as it is all that she does in her days. She becomes fantasized with it towards the end of their stay, and on the last day, she rips off most of the paper, to let out the “creeping woman” trapped behind the paper (the creeping woman is behind the paper, and seen only by the narrator). Right before they are to leave, she locks herself into the room, and creeps around like the woman behind the paper, and when John comes in, he faints, knowing that she has finally lost it.
The story is written in the form of many diary entries, containing some speech, and so it is written in first person. The whole story is about the narrator talking about the wallpaper, and how she eventually sees other things behind the paper, and loves the paper, and doesn’t want to leave. She describes the paper with huge description, often going to great lengths to describe it, such as mentioning that the rips commit suicide, and kill themselves in random directions. Eventually, the paper is personified, with the creeping woman trapped behind the paper.
The main theme shown in the story is insanity, and even depression, as the narrator starts off quite fine, but the longer that she spends her time in the room, the worse her condition becomes, and she becomes totally insane by the end of the story. Also, John seems to show authority in the household, even calling her “little girl”, “silly goose” and speaking to her in the third person, and he tells her what to do to get better, and she mostly obeys. It also shows that mundane things, such as wallpaper can have a lasting effect on people, such as making you go mad.
This story was probably the weirdest that we have read, and i really liked it. I thought that it was a genius idea for a story, and the way that it was written was a great effect, using the diary entries, from the point of the narrator, and how she gets worse and worse.
The yellow wallpaper was written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It dramatizes Gilman’s own experiences of life and tells of her own physician Weir Mitchell.
ReplyDeleteThis story is written in the countryside. The narrator is living in a large mansion for the summer that is supposed to make her feel better under her ‘condition”. The narrator describes it as a
The main character in this story is the Narrator. She is a young upper class married and a new mother. The narrator has an amazing imagination, however she has a condition that makes her seem depressed and a bit crazy. The Narrator is married to John. John is extremely practical unlike his imaginative wife, he is a physicist, he loves his wife but doesn’t see that his treatment is worsening her condition. Jennie is John’s sister. She is a housekeeper for the couple, however her domestic role makes the narrator feel weaker as she is not able to fulfill her duty as a wife or a mother.
The narrator begins her diary speaking about how marvelous the house they have rented for the summer is. She describes it as a haunted house. In her room is some yellow wallpaper and the pattern in particular interests her . After a couple of weeks she begins to imagine things about the wallpaper , that there is a woman stuck behind the wallpaper and she rattles the outer pattern (that represents bars) at night. There are bars on her windows and she is not to do anything physical , and so the narrator feels trapped in the room. She begins to compare herself to the woman in the wallpaper. In the day she sees reflections of herself creeping in the room and since she is comparing herself to the woman in the wallpaper she believes that the woman in the wallpaper is creeping outside. In the end the narrator pulls off all the wallpaper and when John comes in she says , “I’ve pulled off all the wallpaper despite you and jennie and now you can’t put me back!” Which proves she felt trapped behind the paper.
The yellow wallpaper was written in the first person however the narrator’s husband John speaks to her in the third person on some occasions . The story is written as a diary.
The main themes in the story would be about how women in that day and age were dominated my men . The fact that John insists on her using his method of treatment and how he talks to her and the way he acts as though he is the rational one shows how he in control of their relationship. Another theme is how important for people to express how they really feel. Because the narrator is keeping this diary she isn’t telling John how she really feels which drives her bonkers , and their relationship sort of just diminishes slowly.
This story is really quite confusing however it is quite an interesting story and the way the author bases the story on her own experience with depression after child birth is quite clever. I really enjoyed the story however.
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ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wall Paper was written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The story takes place in summer in an old rented out house. It takes place in the country side of America .It takes in a room that has yellow wall paper.
The Characters are the narrator, John, Jennie, Mary and the baby. The narrator is a woman that is “sick” and she is taken to this house in the country side to get better. She is isolated from everyone else. She is not allowed to write or work. She becomes very paranoid and goes crazy. She is Drown into the wall paper; the Narrator has just gone through pregnancies so she might be suffering from. John is the narrator’s husband he is a physician and it was his idea to take his wife to the country side to cure her. Jennie is the narrator’s sister; she takes care of the narrator. Mary is John sister she is the housekeeper and she takes care of the Narrator’s baby.
So the family move to the country side and John chooses a room that is high up. It used to be a playroom and used to be used by children. It is an isolated room and it has a really “hideous yellow wallpaper. First the Narrator is not allowed to write or do any work she is only supposed to rest but when John isn’t around and she is alone she writes in her diary. She really hates the wall paper and the house and thinks she is getting worse not better. John on the other had thinks she has improved but the Narrator hasn’t improved, her condition is actually getting worse because she has become obsessed with the yellow wall paper. She starts analyzing the pattern and it is the only thing she does like it is her job to sit and watch the wall paper. She stays up at night at and watches the wall paper and sleeps in the daytime. She thinks that there is a CREEPY WOMAN in the wall paper and depending on the light the situation of the wall paper changes. If it is day the Creepy woman goes “creeping” in the country side and around the house and in the night the Creepy woman is jailed be hide the wall paper by bars. The Narrators Decides to start tearing off the wall paper to let the Creepy woman free and in the end the Narrator becomes the creepy woman and Creeps round and round in the room.
ReplyDeleteThe Story is written in first person and it is a diary of events. It is in chronological order. The Narrator shows us how exactly she becomes crazy or how she manages to transform into a “creepy Woman”. The author uses “Creepy” a lot. Also the style in which she describes the wall paper is very interesting but weird like saying there is “sub pattern” or it depends on the time of day you look at it. The story shows us how her obsession grows at first she hate the wall paper and wants to move out, then she thinks it’s better she is with the wallpaper because she is protecting her babe , then she starts to watch it and watch it and then becomes what she sees in the wallpaper.
ReplyDeleteThe main idea of the story is to show how women are more emotional that men and how you could hate something so much that you start to love it and become obsessed with it. The other idea the story could be putting across that a woman could go mad from the depression of pregnancy and no social life. Also the husband had the idea in his head that his wife was a little girl and she called her childish name and treated her like you would treat a delicate child. Like not letting her go out and see people. The story also shows us how men can be so insensitive and not realized the actual situation that is going on and make the women do something in this case stay in the room and sleep that worsens the situation because they refuse to listen to what the person in need ( the wife) is trying to say. It shows how egoistic men are.
The yellow wall paper was such a weird story, the weirdest so far in the book. But it was extremely interesting. I liked the way it went bit by bit to show us how she turned into a creepy lady. But it makes you think could a wall paper be so ugly and intriguing that you become obsessed and paranoid? Could something so simple drive you crazy that you watch it and watch it?
By evita
The Yellow Wall Paper
ReplyDeleteThe yellow wall paper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a women and her husband who have moved into a villa for the summer, somewhere in America, and it is about how she becomes paranoid about a yellow wallpaper and how she discusses it.
The story is set in a nice sunny Villa in the USA. It is summer time, but most of the story is set in the room with the yellow wall paper.
The main characters in this story are the narrator (the woman) who isn’t named, John who is her husband and Jennie. The narrator is quite ill at the beginning of the story but her husband John keeps telling her to rest and not think about her illness. She is placed in this room for most of the summer and becomes very paranoid and obsessed with the yellow wall paper that surrounds the whole room. John, who is a doctor, and isn’t at home to look after his wife, he just tells his wife to rest and he keeps convincing her that she is just streesed and not seriously sick. Jennie is John’s sister who helps look after the narrator and her newly born baby, who is a minor character in this story.
The story begins with the family, moving into their new summer Villa. The narrator is told to spend all her time in the room and she isn’t allowed to do anything else or go anywhere else. Every day she looks at the wall paper and describes how horrid and discusting it is. She becomes obsessed and paranoid about it and she is convinced that there is a women creeping through the wall paper trying to get out but not managing. She then thinks that she herself came out from the wall paper and eventually she loses her mind completly and ends up ripping the wall paper off the wall and when John walks in, he faints while she is just creeping around the room and ripping off the wallpaper.
The story is written in diary form in the first person, but sometimes it swaps into the third person. Her husband John, when he speaks to her he adresses her in third person, like he is not directly talking to her but talking to someone else. The narrator uses alot of strong and descriptive language especially when she describes the wall paper and how she despises it. She even describes how the wall paper smells ‘ A yellow type of smell’ so the language used is really descriptive and it uses a lot of long and descriptive words.
The main idea of this story is mystery and depression, to me. The story seems quite depressing as the women seems to be ‘locked’ in this room and the wallpaper is destroying her and tormenting her. It is like hell for her as she just has to sit there and look at this wallpaper all day and all night. Mysterious because we never do find out why John fainted and why she thought she came out of the wallpaper. Also because we do not know what becomes of the narrator and also if the narraotr was actually mental or it was her husbnad who just thought she was.
Overall the story was quite good, it made me want to read more and find out what happens.
The yellow wallpaper is a short story that was written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman..
ReplyDeleteThis story is set in the countryside. The narrator is living in a big mansion for the summer that is supposed to make her feel better under her ‘state’.
The main character in the story is the Narrator. She is a young higher class married woman and a mother. The narrator has a strange imagination, however she has a condition that makes her seem sad and a bit crazy. The Narrator is married to John. John is very practical not like his imaginative wife, he is a physicist; he loves his wife but doesn’t see that his treatment is making her condition worse. Jennie is John’s sister. She is a housekeeper for the pair; however her married role makes the narrator feel weaker because she is not able to accomplish her responsibility as a wife or a mother.
The narrator begins her diary talking about how splendid the house they have rented for the summer is. She describes it as a haunted house. In her room is some yellow wallpaper and the pattern in particular interests her . After a couple of weeks she begins to picture things about the wallpaper , that there is a woman stuck behind the wallpaper and she rattles the surface at night. There are bars on her windows and she is not to do anything physical, and so the narrator feels stuck in the room. She begins to compare herself to the woman in the wallpaper. In the day she sees reflections of herself sneaking in the room and since she is comparing herself to the woman in the wallpaper she believes that the woman in the wallpaper is creeping outside. In the last part the narrator yanks off all the wallpaper and when John comes in she says , “I’ve pulled off all the wallpaper in spite of you and Jennie and now you can’t put me back!” This proves she felt trapped behind the paper.
The yellow wallpaper was written in the first person though the narrator’s husband John speaks to her in the third person at some points. The story was written as a diary.
The main themes in the story are about how women in that day and age were dominated my men . The fact that John insists on her using his way of treatment and how he talks to her and the way he acts as though he is the sane one shows how he is in control of their relationship. Another theme is how it’s significant for people to state how they actually feel since the narrator is keeping this diary she isn’t telling John how she in fact feels which makes her go insane , and their relationship falls apart slowly.
This story is very confusing to me but nevertheless it is quite an appealing story. I really enjoyed the part where the narrator thinks she is in the wall paper… it was funny.
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The yellow wall paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ReplyDeleteThe short story the yellow wall paper is set in England the characters have moved to an estate for six months to live. The estate is old and has not been lived in the gardens have begun to become over grown and the house has lots of wear and tear. There is a large room an old nursery that she is staying in it has barred windows and the bed is nailed to the floor and there is strange yellow wallpaper going around the walls.
The characters are the narrator a nervously ill woman who is staying at the house to get better. Her husband John, a physician and his sister who is there to look after the narrator. She also has a baby child who is being looked after by john’s sister.
The action in the story takes place threw a journal kept by the narrator. The narrator is to rest and get better so she spends most of her time in her room which is an old nursery a large room it windows all around. The room is ok but there is one thing that the narrator finds fault with it the wallpaper it is yellow and has odd patterns on it that swirl and move up and down in different directions not following any patters but being repeated on the next section. She is intent on the Wall paper and wants it removed at first. Then she grows an attraction for it and she studies it day and night following the pattern day and night seeing it from different angles and different lights seeing how it changes and how it develops. She begins to describe the wall paper as having a smell of yellow. The narrator then notices another pattern behind the front one it is a woman who looks like she is weeping and creeping around. The narrators mind starts to detirating and she sees this women creeping around in the daytime creeping around outside in the gardens down the lane. She thinks that the woman is trapped behind the first pattern so she tries to help her get out by pealing it off. She spends two days solid trying to peal it off when she succeeds she somehow convinces herself that she is the woman and starts creeping around the room when john gets home after spending a night in the village he tries to go check on her but she has locked the door and thrown the key out the window he goes and finds the key but when he gets inside he faints and the narrator keeps on walking around the edge of the room stepping over him as she goes.
The style used is a very descriptive and portrays the mind state of the narrator very well as she becomes metal ill shows her slowly get worse and her reasoning behind it her fascination with this wall paper how it draws your eye in different directions how the patter resembles different things how it annoys her then how she becomes possessive over it how she does not want anyone to touch it and then to the very weird ending when she becomes part of the wall paper where she becomes the woman she observed as being trapped in the front pattern
The ideas in this story are strange I think it is showing the view of someone who is becoming mentally incapable and how they react how it develops how they get carried away with small details that play on their mind how she does not want anyone else to notice the faded pattern behind the first one and she things Johns sister is being sneaky when she looks at it. The story is very odd and has a un-normal ending.
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“The Yellow Wallpaper” is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story was first published in January 1892 in “The New England Magazine”. This story deals with some health issues, mental health for instance.
ReplyDeleteThe setting of the story is back in her time (probably when it was issued), USA. It is set in some kind of rural area, in summer. The character’s husband decides to take her away in order for her to feel good, therefore it is “middle of nowhere”. The main setting though is in the room, with the yellow wallpaper.
There are not so many characters in this story. The main character is the narrator, she is a woman who just gave birth to a baby, and she is becoming more mental as time goes by. There is also her husband, John. He is a good character, he takes care of the narrator and wishes only good for her. There is also Jenny, who takes care of the narrator’s baby, Jenny is John’s sister. John is a doctor, so his family is quite rich, definitely not poor.
The action of the story is not so active. First we get to know that the narrator gives birth to a baby, therefore she is having a depression and her husband decides to take her away into some kind of village for her to rest. So Jenny takes care of the baby, and the narrator is actually happy about it(not normal I think), so the narrator has not got much to do. She lives in this room with the yellow wallpaper, she is looking at the patterns and sees more than just a wallpaper. As the story goes, the narrator becomes more and more crazy. She does not like the wallpaper first, then she starts to “need” it. At the end of the story she becomes too mental, so she tears the wall paper, her husband comes in and faints. What a strange ending I should admit.
The style of the story is very descriptive, because you can really picture this actual wall paper, because the narrator is only speaking about it throughout the whole story. You can actually feel the atmosphere change throughtout the story, fist it is cozy and warm, but then it is just uncomfortable and cold.
I think that the main idea of the story was depression. How hard it was for a woman to give birth to a baby and stay normal. Also I think that it was a good idea to finish the story this way, because like that you can think what would happen next.
I enjoyed reading this story, it was well descriptive. Even though it was weird at times, it always made sence. I liked it a lot!
“The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It’s about a lady who was suffering from a sickness. Her husband tries to be helpful and tried to cure her sickness by forcing her to rest in their house throughout the whole summer.
ReplyDeleteThe story is set in a bedroom in summer. The main and only focus of the story is the yellow wallpaper in this bedroom.
There are 2 main characters, one of which is the narrator, a woman who is ill and is forced to spend the whole of summer inside the house, rarely leaving the bedroom. She seems to become very mentally ill and agitated, especially since the wallpaper is her only thing to look at throughout the whole day. Her husband is called John; he is a doctor and always tells the narrator (his wife) to trust him because of his profession. John thinks that leaving his wife in a room will help her but actually it is making her go more crazy.
The story begins when the Narrator and her husband move into the new house in the USA. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper inside the bedroom. The narrator thinks that he can see patterns in the wallpaper and tries to find hidden messages inside it. The ladies mental condition seems to get worse and worse and one of the causes to this is the yellow wallpaper. The narrator begins to like the wallpaper and grows an attachment to it. In the end the narrator looses it completely and rips off the wall paper and then John, her husband notices that she has gone very crazy and faints onto the ground.
The style of this story is written in first person and sometimes includes diary entries. Sometimes when she writes in her diary it ends with something to do with John coming home.
There is an idea in this story that men are stronger and know what there doing where John doesn’t actually know and makes it worse. The narrator brings a scary feel with her mental sickness and I would be scared to be in her place.
I enjoyed the story, and thought it wouldn’t be very good to read but I got quite into the story after hearing how bad her mental condition was.