The Yellow Wall-Paper

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What is insanity? Insanity is a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder. "The Yellow Wallpaper", depicts one form of treatment for a woman's insanity in the late 1800's. This story shows how the men in that era were over protective and controlling.

The story begins with a woman who is being taken care of by her husband John, who is also a physician. He recommends that she be taken to a summer home to help her over come her nervous condition. She is told to rest and sleep; she can't even write. " I must put this away, --he hates to have me write a word" (154). This is just one example showing how controlling her husband is. Another is when he tells her that there is "no reason" for how she feels and that she must dismi

In the Yellow Wallpaper the husband-physician was very over protective and controlling, like most males during that time period. It showed how his obsessive controlling behavior pushed his wife from a just nervous condition to a deranged state of mind.

ss those "silly fantasies." (159) John treats her like a little kid and gives her reason to doubt herself. "Of course it is only nervousness," she decides. (154) She tries to rest, to do as she is told, like a child, but suffers because John does not believe that she is ill. This makes her feel unsure of her own sanity. She feels that she should appreciate the protective love John offers to her, this is seen in line 45 on page 154, when she says, "John does not know how much I really suffer. He know!

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Approximate Word count = 525
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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