“Blog Entry #5” (Guideline #3) There are several conflicts that the protagonist of this story faces. They go as follows: Man vs. Nature (wallpaper, house); Man vs. Self; Man vs. Man (John, Jennie). So, some of you are wondering how I came to this conclusion, I assume? Well, let me explain what is sure to stand as a voice of reason. Man vs. Nature, I feel, best expresses the tension between the protagonist and the house, especially the wallpaper. In fact, during her journal entries, they dominate her thoughts. From the very color of the wallpaper, to figuring out the very pattern that takes over the room. As far as the house is concerned, she expresses grotesque over the nursery which she and her husband, John, sleep in at nights. She expresses several times about the bars that are on the windows, making her feel like a prisoner. The Man vs. Self conflict, however, is apparent from the very start. From the very beginning, she questions how her husband was able to get them a summer residence, as at that time in the year 1892 just having the money to have even the concept of a summer residence is mind-blowing. In addition to that, while at first she is excited about the house, she clearly over time starts showing disgust about the little things like the décor and the upholstery. Overall though, it leads to unique, complex feelings within the protagonists’ character development. Lastly, the Man vs. Man conflict is one that develops over the course of the story. At first, she shows affection towards her husband, John, and her sister, Jennie. However, as the story materializes and takes shape, she manipulates her husband and shows dislike for his opinions about her well being, even if John never picks up the negativity. The relationship that the protagonist has with Jennie is the exact same way.
If the story was told in the viewpoint of Jennie, the narrator’s husbands sister. The story’s viewpoint would change through the eyes because unlike John, she recognizes that the narrator is distressed. Jennie may have narrator the story, in a away that the audience would be able to see what exactly is going on. The narrator is presenting the story from her point of view only, which is important being that this story is about her and her illness. But being that the story is told from the narrator view, the audience may feel confused about the story. If Jennie told the story, the audience may understand all the events going on within the story. Jennie may include that John’s action may be explained as controlling. Jennie may tell the audience more details about John of why he treats his wife as if she did not have a an illness. Jennie recognizes that the narrators mind is not stable. She may be able to elaborate on the activities of the narrator. Jennie may also be able to give the audience further detail of what she feels may be wrong with the narrator or suggest what John should do to treat his wife. Jennie can explain to the audience from a women’s point of view of how the narrator may feel of not being able to do simple domestic task. How a mother will feel of not being able to take care or raise their own child due to a condition. Jennie would give the audience a clearer point of view of the environment that the narrator lives and and maybe be able to answer some of the questions of Why is the narrator confined to a room with windows on the bar?
Guideline #3 The narrator in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" faces the choices of continuing to live in the reality world or create a comfort zone in a fantasy world. As described in the text the narrator is going through an "illness" and her husband is going out of his way to make sure his wife gets better and since he is a doctor he seems to know what is right and not right for her. The narrator rarely has an opinion because she is afraid of how her husband and sister in law might judge her. The narrator enters the old nursery room and automatically becomes curious and amazed of the yellow wall paper and that is where her story begins. Instead of facing her problems she chooses to create a world in which she is in control and uses that story to reveal her inner desire and motives in which lead to her insanity. The narrator felt comfortable in her made up world in which she chooses to live in and perhaps remain there for a lifetime. I would face reality rather than go insane and hide behind a wall paper because whatever problem(s) we face, eventually would have to find a reasonable resolution. Just because we run away from it with fear does not mean it will go away until we encounter it and find the solution. The narrator found her own solution and that was to create her own "reality" to escape her problems but she just sinks herself deeper in that wall paper because she let her fears get the best of her.
Guidelines #6 The Yellow Wallpaper its interesting story. The story is about a couple who moved to a new house or knows as haunted house in colonial mansion. The wife, who is a patient of her husband, has moved to new house to cure her sickness. She does not admit that she has a problem. Her room is surrounded with yellow wallpaper. Wallpaper in the room where she spends most of her time. Since she is trapped in her room with nothing to do, she spends her time staring at the pattern of the wallpaper, becoming more and more obsessed with the paper. The husband John did not spend time with his wife. He treated his wife just like another patient Instead of treating like his wife. Everything he did was based on what other doctors thought. I felt like John treated her the most ridiculous way of treating any mentally ill patient especially his own wife. The title was interesting to me because why is it yellow and why not any other color and what yellow represent. He left his wife in a room with an obsession that kind of shows what kind of role women played in society at time of history and the relationship between husbands and wife’s and women’s had no power over their husbands.
Guidline 8 I think the narrator and the woman behind the wallpaper can be compared, and the narrator and Jennie, the narrator’s husband’s sister, can be contrasted. The narrator doesn’t agree with the decision that her husband makes about her health, but she must agree with him, since he is the doctor. The narrator believes that if she works and does some physical activities, then it will help her calm her mind and she will be fine, but her husband keeps insisting her to stay inside her room and take rest. The narrator has no choice, but to listen to him. After being trapped inside her room for long, she finds the wallpaper intriguing. The narrator sees a woman trapped behind the patterns in the wallpaper, which I think she imagines herself as that woman, trapped. Like the narrator who cannot free herself from her husband’s decision, the woman in the wallpaper cannot free herself from the patterns. On the other hand Jennie is free and can do things that the narrator wishes she did. The narrator describes Jennie as a perfect housekeeper and herself as a burden (Gilman 534-536). From the differences and similarities mentioned above, we can question if Jennie is free, as a girl, then why is it that the narrator feels she is trapped and whether the narrator is really suffering from mental illness or not.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, takes place in an interesting setting. The narrator is a sickly woman who is staying at the moment with her husband, in a colonial mansion. The mansion is quite secluded; it is located three miles away from the village. There is a wonderful garden, with lots of box bordered paths and long grape covered arbors with seats under them. Also in the garden there are broken down greenhouses. The narrators seem to like the garden very much, because she talks about it pretty often. There are many rooms in the mansion, but John (the narrator’s husband) chose a peculiar room for his sickly wife. He claims that this is biggest room for them. The room is where most of the story takes place. It is indeed very big, but there is something about the room and the mansion that seem to give the narrator the creeps. The windows in the room are barred, and walls have rings and things in them. The bed is nailed to the ground. The part of the room that appears to discomfort the narrator the most is the yellow wallpaper. The paper is peeled in a disturbing way. The color the paper is quite dull. The setting of the story is probably the main key component of the story. Because the yellow wallpaper seem to be the main conflict of the story. Without this type of setting I don’t think the story would have made sense. If any of the elements of the setting were changed, the outcome of the story would be very different. For example if the bed wasn’t nailed down the narrator would have easily gotten out and the story would have ended very different.
According to “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator goes through several complications in her life. She is faced with situations and relationships that appear to be simple and thoughtless but are really quite unusual. From the first few sentences the reader learns that she has a very strong imagination and is sensitive. She creates a weird imagination between non-living objects, such as the house and its wallpaper. This tension leads to conflict between the narrator and the wallpaper. Her negative feelings and surroundings cause her to feel a sense of frustration and paranoia towards the wallpaper. She keeps a secret journal to describe her dislikes for the wallpaper and eventually this dislike leads to an obsession. The narrator becomes confused and has conflict with herself as the woman trapped in the wallpaper. Another complication is between the narrator and her husband, who is her doctor ironically. Her husband seems to feel like he knows what he is doing and doesn’t even bother to listen to his wife’s opinions; this causes her to hide her true feelings. The husband doesn’t necessary want to harm her but he is being ignorant about what she really needs. That let alone makes the reader think if he’s really there for her or if he’s the villain in her life.
In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper",the narrator faces a difficult choice. It is said in the story that the narrator is sick.Her husband, who is named John in the story is trying his best to tend to his wife. Being that he is a doctor, he already knows what to and what not to give her. The narrator constantly writes but does not in front of her husband because of what he would think of it. Having this said, I came to the conclusion that the narrator is frightened to tell her husband. Him knowing can lead to judging of what she does which in my opinion, I think she is trying to avoid. If I were under the same circumstances I would have made different decisions. Being ill and in another world called fantasy is not the right answer to everything. The famous phrase "What goes around comes around" can be applied to this text. The narrator might be able to escape it now, but later on in the long run reality will come back to you. We have to face the world for it is. Even if we could imagine a fantasy world that only exists in ones eyes.
Guideline 7 In the “Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator deals with illness while staying at a summer house that her husband rented for the summer. She is undergoing treatment by her husband who is a doctor. The treatment that she is receiving has her doing nothing active. As a result of this, she believes that she should be able to at least do things to get her mind up and running. The narrator’s husband seems to be oppressing her and does not want to listen to her opinion about her illness because he feels that he is the doctor and knows better than her. She ends up growing a huge fascination with the yellow wallpaper in the room that she is staying in. It seems as if she starts growing an imagination the longer she stays in the room and as a result of her husband believing that she does not know any better. I think that before her illness got worse, she knew what was best for her and I believe that she did know what was better for her than her husband. If her husband listened to her and allowed her to express how she felt about her situation and what things she could do to relieve her thoughts, I think that she wouldn’t have grown an obsession with the wallpaper. Locking her up in a room with nothing to do seemed to have made things worse because she’s not doing anything to exercise her mind and the only possible thing that was left for her to do in that situation was to form this wild imagination and fascination with this wallpaper.
Guideline 2 In the "Yellow Wallpaper", by Gilman the narrator seems to face a personal conflict within herself. Being isolated from others physically and mentally at times, she finds herself in delusion which she believes is real. To fend off these illusionistic imaginations she spends occupying her time trying to write. However her mind still makes her aware of what to her his a haunting reality. She tries getting help from her husband to resolve the issue but he himself can not identify what she finds bothersome, possibly due to her having a personal problem. This creates conflict right there and then between them. She feels he is a nice husband and all but still there isn't enough depth to his understanding about her problem. She then starts thinking he might not be considering her as serious, compared to what he does at work, delivering babies, perhaps. She finds this a little heart-breaking that he would rather take interest in lesser important people to him than his beloved wife. Quite clearly this now proves that she is once again facing personal conflict. I believe it is jealousy. Jealous because John is hardly ever around and when he is he wont console her, but he is off to work most days and night comforting other people. This is how she then becomes so deeply in focus on the wallpapers, out of loneliness, she sees a piece of paper on the wall and bam! she creates life, something she can relate to whether intimately or through fear.
Guideline 5 The story was told from the point of view of the narrator providing us with insight on how she viewed situations and thought of them. I felt that if the story was told from the point of view of the narrator’s husband, John, it would have been just as subjective as the narrator’s. However, it would be from the view that superstitious events did not occur. John who is a physician would only look at the facts of the situation and provide the reader with more credibility with the events of the story. We cannot be sure if everything the narrator said happened actually occurred because she is “sick” and the events could have just been a figment of her imagination.
John's Point of View I woke up to find her not in bed sleeping. She returned and I asked her “what is it, little girl?” She told me that she was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but I have seen improvement in her daily habits. I tried to get her to see this too and stay. I said “why darling! The house is not finished being repaired and we still have three more weeks on the lease. If I felt that you were in danger, we would and could, but I’ve seen improvement in you.” “You have been gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better, I feel really much easier about you.” She continued to try and convince me, but as a physician I felt that this house has done her good and since we still had three weeks there was no reason to rush leaving. I told her to get some rest and we would talk about it in the morning. However, she said “Better in body perhaps--“ and with that I instantly sat up and gave her a stern look seeing where this was heading. I pleaded with her for my sake, her sake and for the baby’s to stop having such thoughts as it was not beneficial for her mental state; with that she said no more on the topic and laid down to sleep. I waited until she fell asleep but my mind was still racing trying to figure out some way to get her to see that she is doing better and I did this until sleep took me.
I think if John told the story it would totally be different story. In a way John want to help her, not make things worse. In the story Johns has two roles one as a doctor and as a husband. He comes out stick yet he calls he “ blessed little goose.” He tries not to her hurt hr, yet he ignores her. I think if john told story the story would have a twist. John can explain how he feels and see what is happening around him. We only see how he is view by others. But if he tells the story we can see what he really feels. They say “ do not judge a book by it cover” We see him as what the narrator views him as. When his wife calls him “ that man”, It must be really hard for him he might not show his feelings. He might see different things, because when we look at a situation there are many perspectives to look at it. For instead if the story “3 little pigs” was told by the big bad wolf the story might be more innocent. Who knows? I think John would be telling more different then any one else in the story because he is looked as the antagonists in a way
Guideline #7 – In the “Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator loses touch with the outer world, she comes to a greater understanding of the inner reality of her life. This inner or even the outer split is too difficult to understanding the nature of the narrator’s suffering. At every point, she is faced with relationships, objects, and situations that seem innocent and natural but that are actually quite different. From the beginning, we see that the narrator is an imaginative, highly expressive woman. She remembers frightening herself with imaginary nighttime monsters as a child, and she enjoys the concept that the house they have taken is haunted. Yet as part of her “cure,” her husband forbids her to exercise her imagination in any way. The narrator’s husband seems to be oppressing her and does not want to listen to her opinion about her illness because he feels that he is the doctor and knows better than her. Both her reason and her emotions rebel at the treatment, and she turns her imagination onto seemingly neutral objects the house and the wallpaper in an attempt to ignore her growing frustration. Her negative feelings color her description of her surroundings, she becomes fixated on the wallpaper, but not any wallpaper — “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
2)In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator faces several conflicts, man v. man, and man v. nature. When the story just begins, conflict appears between the narrator and her husband about how to treat the narrator’s illness. Her husband was “a physician of high standing” and he thinks “that no matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency”. He forced her to accept a “rest cure”. On the other hand, the narrator realized that she was sick, and she “disagrees with their ideas.” But nobody listen to her, because her husband was a good doctor, his word was the authority. Since the whole society think she is okay, the narrator chose to obey her husband’s directions. For the narrator to be well again, her husband chose a “colonial mansion, a hereditary estate” which the narrator called it a “haunted house”. In her room, the wallpaper later has a conflict with her. The narrator’s first view of the wall is unpleasant, as the story goes, she start have illusion, “it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern”. Later she mixed up herself with the “woman” who wants to get out of the wallpaper. And eventually she tore all the wallpaper, felt so pleasant that she got the “freedom”. I think the narrator’s craziness is a man made tragedy. In back days, minority group’s voice is always ignored by the majority. In this case, because nobody listens to the narrator’s voice, she felt into depressing, and the wallpaper makes her think she is the crazy woman behind the wallpaper. Finally, she destroys the wallpaper and “escape” from her husband’s control.
Guideline #4 In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the story starts out with her mentioning the haunted house and various forms of housing to show the importance of the setting. Setting gives the reader inside detail to parts of the story that cannot be seen or noticed. Setting can relate object to feeling. In the first few sentences, she relates the haunted house, the colonial mansion, and the hereditary estate to romance. Although she is relating these two factors, it is evident that she scorns then in one way or the other. This is because she finds herself beginning to talk about something that is visually and emotionally bothering her. That is her husband. The fact of her husband questioning her is evident and she tries to argue everything he might say or feel in the best way that she can. Bringing this up is really important, because she celebrates but scorns the vacation house. And in seeing the way her husband has made her feel and continues to make her feel, she greatly uses setting to begin to bash the negatives that she finds i nthe vacation house. "The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it."(Gilman line.33) In noticing her constant negative views of the house, it is evident to the reader that the narraot has insecurities within herself that she chooses to take out on somethingthat seems to have more detail and life to it. More than she ever had. In continuing to bash the house due to her insecurities she purs out all the wrongs she finds in her marriage. However she does this subliminally. However, through setting, this is evident by the reader.
The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that it takes place in America in the late nineteenth century. The more defined setting is a supposedly haunted house which is used as a summer home. The characters live there during the summer mostly to help the protagonist to overcome her mental anxiety. The story takes place mostly in one room of the house and the room itself becomes a character since it seems to be "aware" or so the characters think.The room serves as an asylum for the woman where she, presumably, starts to hallucinate the appearance of a mysterious woman behind the wallpaper in the room. The setting is important because the room might be seen as an oppresive force against the woman symbolizing the control that women were under in society during that time period. If the setting were changed in any way, then the reader might be less likely to associate the setting with a feminist struggle for equality but as simply the story of a mentally anguished woman. This is due to the fact that women at the time, and the protagonist as well, were expected to act calm and emotionless and anyone not adhering to that was deemed to be hysterical and therefore "required" examination and treatment.
Guideline 2 In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the characters go through conflicts involving each other, and with themselves. The first conflict is between the Narrator and her sickness. The narrator is struggling with what her husband calls “Temporary nervous depression.” Her husband says that there is nothing wrong with her, and that she should just rest. The narrator, however, believes that she needs to do work, and some excitement would do her good. She goes along with his decision to stay at the mansion in spite of her feelings. She then starts getting agitated by the room in which she is confined. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, seeing every flaw with in it. As she starts descending into madness, she becomes convinced she is trapped behind the yellow wallpaper, and locks herself in the room.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I sensed two major conflicts, one of them being the narrator vs. the husband and the second being the narrator vs. herself. Starting off with the narrator vs. the husband, the narrator has an illness which her husband treats and uses bed-side manners to convince her that nothing is wrong with her that all she needs to do is gets some rest. She resisted and believes that she needs to work and the excitement would do her good. So the narrator starts to constantly write but is frightened to tell her husband. With her husband John not being around I believe out of loneness she create a fantasy world in the room she is in. Then she starts to get annoyed with the room’s yellow wallpaper, she kept a journey describing her dislike for the yellow wallpaper and pointed it out all its flaws. Noting in the beginning the narrator has a strong imagination so she started to feel trapped within the yellow wallpaper in her house, so this became the conflict of the narrator vs. herself. Feeling confined in that yellow wallpaper creating a fantasy world in her own mind and eventually her dislike for the yellow wallpaper became an obsession.
Guideline 5 I believe that this story may have been very different if it was to be written in John’s point of view as the narrator speaks only of what he sees and not really what was going thru John’s mind during the situation that he is put in as his own wife’s doctor. If john was to tell this story we would know what leads to all his actions towards his wife maybe then we can understand why he did what he did with his actions towards his wife, I believe that if this was told thru his point of view we would learn to understand his emotions and feelings that were brought upon his wife’s I believe rejection towards him which to any married man would make break down instantly, with this we can understand what helped him become strong enough for him to be able to deal with his wife being one of his patients and his wife being as mentally ill as she is. Only when this story is told thru John eyes and not his wife’s eyes can we really understand this literature more completely as I believe would make the story that much interesting as it would add a bit of drama and emotions to the story.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short fiction written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, that is about a women who sets place in this very huge house. The setting takes place in a beautiful place, which is alone and is three miles from the village. As the character says, " It makes me think of English places that you read about" because there are hedges, walls and gates that lock(P. 18). This house is so big that it also has houses for the gardeners and those who work in the house. The house also has a beautiful garden, the garden is "large and shady" that are full of box-bordered paths (P. 19). You can also see that there was a greenhouse, but not anymore. For some unknown reason this place seemed empty for years.
Inside the house, is where the text takes place for most of the time. The protagonist is in a big, airy room. As you may look in the room, the windows bring in much air and sunshine. The character states, " It was a nursery first, and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the wall" (P.31). You look at the wall and the paint and paper are hideous in the characters opinion. The wallpaper is stripped, and along the head of the bed there are great patches. On the other side of the room the wall paper is low down. The walls was a "flamboyant pattern committing every artistic sin" (p. 32). " The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, orangely faded by the slow turning sunlight. It is dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sicky sulphur tint in others" that was how the walls looked in this big, airy room.
The significance of the room in " The Yellow Wallpaper" had a lot to do with not only the title but the meaning behind the character. The Yellow wallpaper is what the character disliked the most of the room she was to stay in for three months, in which the author made a connection with the title chosen. On the other hand, this room is what made her want to write , to speak her mind. This yellow wall was her conflict, her bothersome issue that she could not do anything about. So the setting does play a big part in this short fiction story. It is where the story is developed.
In this story the one thing that is mentioned repeatedly is that the narrator seems to mention the garden several times. This really stood out to me. The narrator says that she had never seen a garden like that one. Also she mentions that the garden is delicious and mysterious. This shows that she has more thoughts in her mind then she is just writing about, and she is sensitive. I think that it reminds the reader that the narrator is a real person and not a made up character. Also it gives it more of a journal type of feel. However the author feels and thinks she writes it down to express herself and I think that this is a very important aspect in this piece. Another thing that stands out is the yellow wall paper itself. She describes it as a washed out kind of yellow, but eventually it becomes found of it, and all she is used to. She goes out and she talks about it being to “green” outside not “yellow”. The reason for this being that the yellow wall paper is all she sees and it starts to become her reality. The yellow wall paper and the garden are two important aspects to pay attention to.
The viewpoint from which the story is told is a critical element in every story. Whether a story is told by a narrator/omniscient being, the protagonist or a third person determines how much information is provided to the reader. "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Gilman has created a distinct viewpoint through the protagonist. In my opinion she is alienated from the rest of the characters in the story. The protagonist paints a picture in which she is a victim of disbelief. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do" (Line 7). However if you examine the story from a different viewpoint the reader may not see that picture. If the story is told through the viewpoint of the protagonist's husband John the story would take on an entirely different mood. The suspicious and unserious tone created by the protagonist would become somber. For example, at the end when the wife is caught "creeping" by the husband a different viewpoint would elaborate on the situation and give the reader more understanding. If the viewpoint switched to the husband the scene would probably end with the wife tearing down the wallpaper after committing some act of suicide.
In the "Yellow Wallpaper", by Gilman the narrator seems to face a personal conflict within herself. Being isolated from others physically and mentally at times, she finds herself in delusion which she believes is real. Starting off with the narrator vs. the husband, the narrator has an illness which her husband treats and uses bed-side manners to convince her that nothing is wrong with her that all she needs to do is gets some rest.She then starts getting agitated by the room in which she is confined. She resisted and believes that she needs to work and the excitement would do her good. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, seeing every flaw with in it. See then starts to loose her mind and nobody listens to her voice, she felt into depressing, and the wallpaper makes her think she is the crazy woman behind the wallpaper. Finally, she destroys the wallpaper and “escape” from her husband’s control.
“Blog Entry #5” (Guideline #3)
ReplyDeleteThere are several conflicts that the protagonist of this story faces. They go as follows: Man vs. Nature (wallpaper, house); Man vs. Self; Man vs. Man (John, Jennie). So, some of you are wondering how I came to this conclusion, I assume? Well, let me explain what is sure to stand as a voice of reason.
Man vs. Nature, I feel, best expresses the tension between the protagonist and the house, especially the wallpaper. In fact, during her journal entries, they dominate her thoughts. From the very color of the wallpaper, to figuring out the very pattern that takes over the room. As far as the house is concerned, she expresses grotesque over the nursery which she and her husband, John, sleep in at nights. She expresses several times about the bars that are on the windows, making her feel like a prisoner.
The Man vs. Self conflict, however, is apparent from the very start. From the very beginning, she questions how her husband was able to get them a summer residence, as at that time in the year 1892 just having the money to have even the concept of a summer residence is mind-blowing. In addition to that, while at first she is excited about the house, she clearly over time starts showing disgust about the little things like the décor and the upholstery. Overall though, it leads to unique, complex feelings within the protagonists’ character development.
Lastly, the Man vs. Man conflict is one that develops over the course of the story. At first, she shows affection towards her husband, John, and her sister, Jennie. However, as the story materializes and takes shape, she manipulates her husband and shows dislike for his opinions about her well being, even if John never picks up the negativity. The relationship that the protagonist has with Jennie is the exact same way.
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ReplyDeleteIf the story was told in the viewpoint of Jennie, the narrator’s husbands sister. The story’s viewpoint would change through the eyes because unlike John, she recognizes that the narrator is distressed. Jennie may have narrator the story, in a away that the audience would be able to see what exactly is going on. The narrator is presenting the story from her point of view only, which is important being that this story is about her and her illness. But being that the story is told from the narrator view, the audience may feel confused about the story. If Jennie told the story, the audience may understand all the events going on within the story. Jennie may include that John’s action may be explained as controlling. Jennie may tell the audience more details about John of why he treats his wife as if she did not have a an illness. Jennie recognizes that the narrators mind is not stable. She may be able to elaborate on the activities of the narrator. Jennie may also be able to give the audience further detail of what she feels may be wrong with the narrator or suggest what John should do to treat his wife. Jennie can explain to the audience from a women’s point of view of how the narrator may feel of not being able to do simple domestic task. How a mother will feel of not being able to take care or raise their own child due to a condition. Jennie would give the audience a clearer point of view of the environment that the narrator lives and and maybe be able to answer some of the questions of Why is the narrator confined to a room with windows on the bar?
Guideline #3
ReplyDeleteThe narrator in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" faces the choices of continuing to live in the reality world or create a comfort zone in a fantasy world. As described in the text the narrator is going through an "illness" and her husband is going out of his way to make sure his wife gets better and since he is a doctor he seems to know what is right and not right for her. The narrator rarely has an opinion because she is afraid of how her husband and sister in law might judge her. The narrator enters the old nursery room and automatically becomes curious and amazed of the yellow wall paper and that is where her story begins. Instead of facing her problems she chooses to create a world in which she is in control and uses that story to reveal her inner desire and motives in which lead to her insanity. The narrator felt comfortable in her made up world in which she chooses to live in and perhaps remain there for a lifetime. I would face reality rather than go insane and hide behind a wall paper because whatever problem(s) we face, eventually would have to find a reasonable resolution. Just because we run away from it with fear does not mean it will go away until we encounter it and find the solution. The narrator found her own solution and that was to create her own "reality" to escape her problems but she just sinks herself deeper in that wall paper because she let her fears get the best of her.
Guidelines #6
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow Wallpaper its interesting story. The story is about a couple who moved to a new house or knows as haunted house in colonial mansion. The wife, who is a patient of her husband, has moved to new house to cure her sickness. She does not admit that she has a problem. Her room is surrounded with yellow wallpaper. Wallpaper in the room where she spends most of her time. Since she is trapped in her room with nothing to do, she spends her time staring at the pattern of the wallpaper, becoming more and more obsessed with the paper. The husband John did not spend time with his wife. He treated his wife just like another patient Instead of treating like his wife. Everything he did was based on what other doctors thought. I felt like John treated her the most ridiculous way of treating any mentally ill patient especially his own wife. The title was interesting to me because why is it yellow and why not any other color and what yellow represent. He left his wife in a room with an obsession that kind of shows what kind of role women played in society at time of history and the relationship between husbands and wife’s and women’s had no power over their husbands.
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ReplyDeleteI think the narrator and the woman behind the wallpaper can be compared, and the narrator and Jennie, the narrator’s husband’s sister, can be contrasted. The narrator doesn’t agree with the decision that her husband makes about her health, but she must agree with him, since he is the doctor. The narrator believes that if she works and does some physical activities, then it will help her calm her mind and she will be fine, but her husband keeps insisting her to stay inside her room and take rest. The narrator has no choice, but to listen to him. After being trapped inside her room for long, she finds the wallpaper intriguing. The narrator sees a woman trapped behind the patterns in the wallpaper, which I think she imagines herself as that woman, trapped. Like the narrator who cannot free herself from her husband’s decision, the woman in the wallpaper cannot free herself from the patterns. On the other hand Jennie is free and can do things that the narrator wishes she did. The narrator describes Jennie as a perfect housekeeper and herself as a burden (Gilman 534-536). From the differences and similarities mentioned above, we can question if Jennie is free, as a girl, then why is it that the narrator feels she is trapped and whether the narrator is really suffering from mental illness or not.
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ReplyDelete“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, takes place in an interesting setting. The narrator is a sickly woman who is staying at the moment with her husband, in a colonial mansion. The mansion is quite secluded; it is located three miles away from the village. There is a wonderful garden, with lots of box bordered paths and long grape covered arbors with seats under them. Also in the garden there are broken down greenhouses. The narrators seem to like the garden very much, because she talks about it pretty often. There are many rooms in the mansion, but John (the narrator’s husband) chose a peculiar room for his sickly wife. He claims that this is biggest room for them. The room is where most of the story takes place. It is indeed very big, but there is something about the room and the mansion that seem to give the narrator the creeps. The windows in the room are barred, and walls have rings and things in them. The bed is nailed to the ground. The part of the room that appears to discomfort the narrator the most is the yellow wallpaper. The paper is peeled in a disturbing way. The color the paper is quite dull. The setting of the story is probably the main key component of the story. Because the yellow wallpaper seem to be the main conflict of the story. Without this type of setting I don’t think the story would have made sense. If any of the elements of the setting were changed, the outcome of the story would be very different. For example if the bed wasn’t nailed down the narrator would have easily gotten out and the story would have ended very different.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator goes through several complications in her life. She is faced with situations and relationships that appear to be simple and thoughtless but are really quite unusual. From the first few sentences the reader learns that she has a very strong imagination and is sensitive. She creates a weird imagination between non-living objects, such as the house and its wallpaper. This tension leads to conflict between the narrator and the wallpaper. Her negative feelings and surroundings cause her to feel a sense of frustration and paranoia towards the wallpaper. She keeps a secret journal to describe her dislikes for the wallpaper and eventually this dislike leads to an obsession. The narrator becomes confused and has conflict with herself as the woman trapped in the wallpaper. Another complication is between the narrator and her husband, who is her doctor ironically. Her husband seems to feel like he knows what he is doing and doesn’t even bother to listen to his wife’s opinions; this causes her to hide her true feelings. The husband doesn’t necessary want to harm her but he is being ignorant about what she really needs. That let alone makes the reader think if he’s really there for her or if he’s the villain in her life.
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ReplyDeleteIn the story "The Yellow Wallpaper",the narrator faces a difficult choice. It is said in the story that the narrator is sick.Her husband, who is named John in the story is trying his best to tend to his wife. Being that he is a doctor, he already knows what to and what not to give her. The narrator constantly writes but does not in front of her husband because of what he would think of it. Having this said, I came to the conclusion that the narrator is frightened to tell her husband. Him knowing can lead to judging of what she does which in my opinion, I think she is trying to avoid. If I were under the same circumstances I would have made different decisions. Being ill and in another world called fantasy is not the right answer to everything. The famous phrase "What goes around comes around" can be applied to this text. The narrator might be able to escape it now, but later on in the long run reality will come back to you. We have to face the world for it is. Even if we could imagine a fantasy world that only exists in ones eyes.
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ReplyDeleteIn the “Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator deals with illness while staying at a summer house that her husband rented for the summer. She is undergoing treatment by her husband who is a doctor. The treatment that she is receiving has her doing nothing active. As a result of this, she believes that she should be able to at least do things to get her mind up and running. The narrator’s husband seems to be oppressing her and does not want to listen to her opinion about her illness because he feels that he is the doctor and knows better than her. She ends up growing a huge fascination with the yellow wallpaper in the room that she is staying in. It seems as if she starts growing an imagination the longer she stays in the room and as a result of her husband believing that she does not know any better. I think that before her illness got worse, she knew what was best for her and I believe that she did know what was better for her than her husband. If her husband listened to her and allowed her to express how she felt about her situation and what things she could do to relieve her thoughts, I think that she wouldn’t have grown an obsession with the wallpaper. Locking her up in a room with nothing to do seemed to have made things worse because she’s not doing anything to exercise her mind and the only possible thing that was left for her to do in that situation was to form this wild imagination and fascination with this wallpaper.
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ReplyDeleteIn the "Yellow Wallpaper", by Gilman the narrator seems to face a personal conflict within herself. Being isolated from others physically and mentally at times, she finds herself in delusion which she believes is real. To fend off these illusionistic imaginations she spends occupying her time trying to write. However her mind still makes her aware of what to her his a haunting reality. She tries getting help from her husband to resolve the issue but he himself can not identify what she finds bothersome, possibly due to her having a personal problem. This creates conflict right there and then between them. She feels he is a nice husband and all but still there isn't enough depth to his understanding about her problem. She then starts thinking he might not be considering her as serious, compared to what he does at work, delivering babies, perhaps. She finds this a little heart-breaking that he would rather take interest in lesser important people to him than his beloved wife. Quite clearly this now proves that she is once again facing personal conflict. I believe it is jealousy. Jealous because John is hardly ever around and when he is he wont console her, but he is off to work most days and night comforting other people. This is how she then becomes so deeply in focus on the wallpapers, out of loneliness, she sees a piece of paper on the wall and bam! she creates life, something she can relate to whether intimately or through fear.
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ReplyDeleteThe story was told from the point of view of the narrator providing us with insight on how she viewed situations and thought of them. I felt that if the story was told from the point of view of the narrator’s husband, John, it would have been just as subjective as the narrator’s. However, it would be from the view that superstitious events did not occur. John who is a physician would only look at the facts of the situation and provide the reader with more credibility with the events of the story. We cannot be sure if everything the narrator said happened actually occurred because she is “sick” and the events could have just been a figment of her imagination.
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I woke up to find her not in bed sleeping. She returned and I asked her “what is it, little girl?” She told me that she was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but I have seen improvement in her daily habits. I tried to get her to see this too and stay. I said “why darling! The house is not finished being repaired and we still have three more weeks on the lease. If I felt that you were in danger, we would and could, but I’ve seen improvement in you.” “You have been gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better, I feel really much easier about you.” She continued to try and convince me, but as a physician I felt that this house has done her good and since we still had three weeks there was no reason to rush leaving. I told her to get some rest and we would talk about it in the morning. However, she said “Better in body perhaps--“ and with that I instantly sat up and gave her a stern look seeing where this was heading. I pleaded with her for my sake, her sake and for the baby’s to stop having such thoughts as it was not beneficial for her mental state; with that she said no more on the topic and laid down to sleep. I waited until she fell asleep but my mind was still racing trying to figure out some way to get her to see that she is doing better and I did this until sleep took me.
I think if John told the story it would totally be different story. In a way John want to help her, not make things worse. In the story Johns has two roles one as a doctor and as a husband. He comes out stick yet he calls he “ blessed little goose.” He tries not to her hurt hr, yet he ignores her. I think if john told story the story would have a twist. John can explain how he feels and see what is happening around him. We only see how he is view by others. But if he tells the story we can see what he really feels. They say “ do not judge a book by it cover” We see him as what the narrator views him as. When his wife calls him “ that man”, It must be really hard for him he might not show his feelings. He might see different things, because when we look at a situation there are many perspectives to look at it. For instead if the story “3 little pigs” was told by the big bad wolf the story might be more innocent. Who knows? I think John would be telling more different then any one else in the story because he is looked as the antagonists in a way
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ReplyDeleteIn the “Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator loses touch with the outer world, she comes to a greater understanding of the inner reality of her life. This inner or even the outer split is too difficult to understanding the nature of the narrator’s suffering. At every point, she is faced with relationships, objects, and situations that seem innocent and natural but that are actually quite different. From the beginning, we see that the narrator is an imaginative, highly expressive woman. She remembers frightening herself with imaginary nighttime monsters as a child, and she enjoys the concept that the house they have taken is haunted. Yet as part of her “cure,” her husband forbids her to exercise her imagination in any way. The narrator’s husband seems to be oppressing her and does not want to listen to her opinion about her illness because he feels that he is the doctor and knows better than her. Both her reason and her emotions rebel at the treatment, and she turns her imagination onto seemingly neutral objects the house and the wallpaper in an attempt to ignore her growing frustration. Her negative feelings color her description of her surroundings, she becomes fixated on the wallpaper, but not any wallpaper — “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
2)In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator faces several conflicts, man v. man, and man v. nature. When the story just begins, conflict appears between the narrator and her husband about how to treat the narrator’s illness. Her husband was “a physician of high standing” and he thinks “that no matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency”. He forced her to accept a “rest cure”. On the other hand, the narrator realized that she was sick, and she “disagrees with their ideas.” But nobody listen to her, because her husband was a good doctor, his word was the authority. Since the whole society think she is okay, the narrator chose to obey her husband’s directions. For the narrator to be well again, her husband chose a “colonial mansion, a hereditary estate” which the narrator called it a “haunted house”. In her room, the wallpaper later has a conflict with her. The narrator’s first view of the wall is unpleasant, as the story goes, she start have illusion, “it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern”. Later she mixed up herself with the “woman” who wants to get out of the wallpaper. And eventually she tore all the wallpaper, felt so pleasant that she got the “freedom”. I think the narrator’s craziness is a man made tragedy. In back days, minority group’s voice is always ignored by the majority. In this case, because nobody listens to the narrator’s voice, she felt into depressing, and the wallpaper makes her think she is the crazy woman behind the wallpaper. Finally, she destroys the wallpaper and “escape” from her husband’s control.
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ReplyDeleteIn the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the story starts out with her mentioning the haunted house and various forms of housing to show the importance of the setting. Setting gives the reader inside detail to parts of the story that cannot be seen or noticed. Setting can relate object to feeling. In the first few sentences, she relates the haunted house, the colonial mansion, and the hereditary estate to romance. Although she is relating these two factors, it is evident that she scorns then in one way or the other. This is because she finds herself beginning to talk about something that is visually and emotionally bothering her. That is her husband. The fact of her husband questioning her is evident and she tries to argue everything he might say or feel in the best way that she can. Bringing this up is really important, because she celebrates but scorns the vacation house. And in seeing the way her husband has made her feel and continues to make her feel, she greatly uses setting to begin to bash the negatives that she finds i nthe vacation house.
"The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it."(Gilman line.33) In noticing her constant negative views of the house, it is evident to the reader that the narraot has insecurities within herself that she chooses to take out on somethingthat seems to have more detail and life to it. More than she ever had. In continuing to bash the house due to her insecurities she purs out all the wrongs she finds in her marriage. However she does this subliminally. However, through setting, this is evident by the reader.
The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that it takes place in America in the late nineteenth century. The more defined setting is a supposedly haunted house which is used as a summer home. The characters live there during the summer mostly to help the protagonist to overcome her mental anxiety. The story takes place mostly in one room of the house and the room itself becomes a character since it seems to be "aware" or so the characters think.The room serves as an asylum for the woman where she, presumably, starts to hallucinate the appearance of a mysterious woman behind the wallpaper in the room. The setting is important because the room might be seen as an oppresive force against the woman symbolizing the control that women were under in society during that time period. If the setting were changed in any way, then the reader might be less likely to associate the setting with a feminist struggle for equality but as simply the story of a mentally anguished woman. This is due to the fact that women at the time, and the protagonist as well, were expected to act calm and emotionless and anyone not adhering to that was deemed to be hysterical and therefore "required" examination and treatment.
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ReplyDeleteIn “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the characters go through conflicts involving each other, and with themselves. The first conflict is between the Narrator and her sickness. The narrator is struggling with what her husband calls “Temporary nervous depression.” Her husband says that there is nothing wrong with her, and that she should just rest. The narrator, however, believes that she needs to do work, and some excitement would do her good. She goes along with his decision to stay at the mansion in spite of her feelings. She then starts getting agitated by the room in which she is confined. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, seeing every flaw with in it. As she starts descending into madness, she becomes convinced she is trapped behind the yellow wallpaper, and locks herself in the room.
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ReplyDeleteIn “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I sensed two major conflicts, one of them being the narrator vs. the husband and the second being the narrator vs. herself. Starting off with the narrator vs. the husband, the narrator has an illness which her husband treats and uses bed-side manners to convince her that nothing is wrong with her that all she needs to do is gets some rest. She resisted and believes that she needs to work and the excitement would do her good. So the narrator starts to constantly write but is frightened to tell her husband. With her husband John not being around I believe out of loneness she create a fantasy world in the room she is in. Then she starts to get annoyed with the room’s yellow wallpaper, she kept a journey describing her dislike for the yellow wallpaper and pointed it out all its flaws. Noting in the beginning the narrator has a strong imagination so she started to feel trapped within the yellow wallpaper in her house, so this became the conflict of the narrator vs. herself. Feeling confined in that yellow wallpaper creating a fantasy world in her own mind and eventually her dislike for the yellow wallpaper became an obsession.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that this story may have been very different if it was to be written in John’s point of view as the narrator speaks only of what he sees and not really what was going thru John’s mind during the situation that he is put in as his own wife’s doctor. If john was to tell this story we would know what leads to all his actions towards his wife maybe then we can understand why he did what he did with his actions towards his wife, I believe that if this was told thru his point of view we would learn to understand his emotions and feelings that were brought upon his wife’s I believe rejection towards him which to any married man would make break down instantly, with this we can understand what helped him become strong enough for him to be able to deal with his wife being one of his patients and his wife being as mentally ill as she is. Only when this story is told thru John eyes and not his wife’s eyes can we really understand this literature more completely as I believe would make the story that much interesting as it would add a bit of drama and emotions to the story.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short fiction written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, that is about a women who sets place in this very huge house. The setting takes place in a beautiful place, which is alone and is three miles from the village. As the character says, " It makes me think of English places that you read about" because there are hedges, walls and gates that lock(P. 18). This house is so big that it also has houses for the gardeners and those who work in the house. The house also has a beautiful garden, the garden is "large and shady" that are full of box-bordered paths (P. 19). You can also see that there was a greenhouse, but not anymore. For some unknown reason this place seemed empty for years.
ReplyDeleteInside the house, is where the text takes place for most of the time. The protagonist is in a big, airy room. As you may look in the room, the windows bring in much air and sunshine. The character states, " It was a nursery first, and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the wall" (P.31). You look at the wall and the paint and paper are hideous in the characters opinion. The wallpaper is stripped, and along the head of the bed there are great patches. On the other side of the room the wall paper is low down. The walls was a "flamboyant pattern committing every artistic sin" (p. 32). " The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, orangely faded by the slow turning sunlight. It is dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sicky sulphur tint in others" that was how the walls looked in this big, airy room.
The significance of the room in " The Yellow Wallpaper" had a lot to do with not only the title but the meaning behind the character. The Yellow wallpaper is what the character disliked the most of the room she was to stay in for three months, in which the author made a connection with the title chosen. On the other hand, this room is what made her want to write , to speak her mind. This yellow wall was her conflict, her bothersome issue that she could not do anything about. So the setting does play a big part in this short fiction story. It is where the story is developed.
In this story the one thing that is mentioned repeatedly is that the narrator seems to mention the garden several times. This really stood out to me. The narrator says that she had never seen a garden like that one. Also she mentions that the garden is delicious and mysterious. This shows that she has more thoughts in her mind then she is just writing about, and she is sensitive. I think that it reminds the reader that the narrator is a real person and not a made up character. Also it gives it more of a journal type of feel. However the author feels and thinks she writes it down to express herself and I think that this is a very important aspect in this piece. Another thing that stands out is the yellow wall paper itself. She describes it as a washed out kind of yellow, but eventually it becomes found of it, and all she is used to. She goes out and she talks about it being to “green” outside not “yellow”. The reason for this being that the yellow wall paper is all she sees and it starts to become her reality. The yellow wall paper and the garden are two important aspects to pay attention to.
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ReplyDeleteThe viewpoint from which the story is told is a critical element in every story. Whether a story is told by a narrator/omniscient being, the protagonist or a third person determines how much information is provided to the reader. "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Gilman has created a distinct viewpoint through the protagonist. In my opinion she is alienated from the rest of the characters in the story. The protagonist paints a picture in which she is a victim of disbelief. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do" (Line 7). However if you examine the story from a different viewpoint the reader may not see that picture. If the story is told through the viewpoint of the protagonist's husband John the story would take on an entirely different mood. The suspicious and unserious tone created by the protagonist would become somber. For example, at the end when the wife is caught "creeping" by the husband a different viewpoint would elaborate on the situation and give the reader more understanding. If the viewpoint switched to the husband the scene would probably end with the wife tearing down the wallpaper after committing some act of suicide.
In the "Yellow Wallpaper", by Gilman the narrator seems to face a personal conflict within herself. Being isolated from others physically and mentally at times, she finds herself in delusion which she believes is real.
ReplyDeleteStarting off with the narrator vs. the husband, the narrator has an illness which her husband treats and uses bed-side manners to convince her that nothing is wrong with her that all she needs to do is gets some rest.She then starts getting agitated by the room in which she is confined. She resisted and believes that she needs to work and the excitement would do her good. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, seeing every flaw with in it. See then starts to loose her mind and nobody listens to her voice, she felt into depressing, and the wallpaper makes her think she is the crazy woman behind the wallpaper. Finally, she destroys the wallpaper and “escape” from her husband’s control.