Society’s Treatment of Women Revealed in The Yellow Wallpaper

Societys Treatment of Women Revealed in The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman had problems. Most of those problems momented from her nervous check into that was previously termed melancholia. She did non give in Gilman was a fighter. Instead of arc to the disease, she wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, a story intended to help other women torment from a similar fate. Although this explanation reveals why Gilman wrote the book, it does not reveal the straightforward intention of the story. This is not merely the tale of an insane woman. The cashiers insanity is a symbol for Gilmans commentary on the evils of mixer conformity with relevance to the role of women in society. The narrator comes to realize the inhumaneness in societys treatment of women, and, as a result of her awakening, she cannot help but visualize her own torment brought on by the old yellow wallpaper that hangs around her, a faded cage. The narrators name is left a mystery in ensnare to give her universa l appeal. The narrator could be and is every wife, every mother, every daughter, every woman. Gilman uses imagery and literary devices to convey her moral of the mistreatment of women in the nineteenth century. The first striking image that readers of The Yellow Wallpaper are presented with is not that of a room, it is not of the house, but of the character of John, the husband. John is described as a man of a practical and ext... ...21-530. King, Jeanette, and Pam Morris. On Not adaptation Between the Lines Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short legend 26.1 (Winter 1989) 23-32. Knight, Denise D. The Reincarnation of Jane Through This - Gilmans Companion to The Yellow Wallpaper. Womens Studies 20 (1992) 287-302. Rigney, Barbara Hill. Madness and Sexual governance in the Feminist Novel Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood. Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Russell, Denise. Women, Madness and Medicine. Cambridge, MA order Press , 1995. Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. New York Pantheon Books, 1985.