Symbols of Entrapment
Talents and dreams, hopes and desires, shunned by the husbands and times of the women in ėThe Crysanthemumsî and ėThe Yellow Wallpaper.î The wife, Elisa, in ėThe Crysanthemumsî, reflects an internal struggle with herself to find her place in a world of definite gender roles. ėThe Yellow Wallpaperî traces the treatment of a woman who descends from depression to madness in the male-imposed psychiatric confinement of her room. The mirror-like situations that hinder the protagonists in both stories call the women to conduct themselves in demeanors drastically different from one another. Elisa Allen of ėThe Crysanthemumsî and the narrator of ėThe Yellow Wallpaperî both have husbands who fancy the idea of knowing what their wives want and need. On the way to dinner, Elisa asks her husband about the fights and his immediate reply is, ėWe can go if you want, but I dont think you would like them much.î He cannot fathom the idea that she may actually enjoy this non-feminie event. The narrators husband also assumes that he knows what is best for his wife. He thinks isolation and confinement will cure her ėnervou
When inner happiness is not obtained, life comes to a halt, and presents options. The women in these stories opted to take different paths in the hopes of finding inner joy. The narrator wants out, she will stand for nothing less. By ripping down the wallpaper and abolishing the bars that once surrounded her, she feels autonomous. No one or nothing will obstruct the path of freedom, of independence, except for the stipulations of her own mind. In this quest she loses all that keeps her sane, she has transposed into a woman gone mad. Elisa Allen tries to achieve her desire to be free by extending outward in the hope of receiving outside acknowledgement. The tinker is to transport some crysanthemums to a woman in town. Elisas hunger and strive for achievement is diminished when she witnesses her crysanthemums on the ground crushed and destroyed. She, unlike the narrator, settles for what is within her reach and concludes with a glass of wine at dinner. The woman in The Crysanthemumsî and ėThe Yellow Wallpaperî both show ambition and the drive to become more. Within their lives, barriers must be crossed i
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