yelow wall-paper
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story about a woman and her psychological difficulties, in which her husband tries to help her. The story, although very captivating, is very confusing. It's easy to follow but hard to get a meaning or reasoning about what is going on. The only conclusion that makes sence in my opinion is that the main character goes crazy. This is a strange concept considering that the story is supposed to be somewhat semi-autobiographical. How does one sanely write about their own insanity?First of all, Gilman's feminist views are apparent through the novel. The whole time the character is being prescribed rest and being told not to do any activities, by her husband and other influential men in her life. She also mentions numerous times about the fact that if a man says something what is a woman to contradict. "Personally, I disagree with [her husband's and brother's] ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?" (Gilman, 160). The woman in the story feels like she is being trapped like a prisoner. Easily, if she wanted to, she could leave but again she feels she has no control ove
r the men in her life. Her thoughts are made into visions when she sees the "woman in the wallpaper." She talks about her grabbing the bars and shaking them so. This I believe is like her inner conscious trying to break free of this oppression. Not just the oppression of not being able to do anything but the oppression of men in society. I think Gilman wrote this story with some points that don't necessarily have a deep meaning except to show the craziness of the character. This story was very entertaining and I was wrapped up in it the whole time. Yes you can analyze this and try to come up with a deeper meaning to everything she wrote, but I feel that the story was more of an informative story for other women wrongly diagnosed and as an "in your face" type comment to her doctor. The feminist suggestions were just the type of comments she always used in her papers, because of her standings on the feminist issue. There are also many points in the story that greatly catch my attention but I can not find any reasoning behind them. One of them is when she mentions the lady in the wallpaper creeps outside during the day. All the places the character sees the woman is dark or shaded areas including in the country side "as fast as a shadow of a cloud along the ground." I found this point strange as if it leapt out of the page at
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