YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Experience and Relationships Between the Sexes in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Daisy Miller by Henry James
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a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...
Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...
content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...
developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed ...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...
and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The differences in perspective between "The Yellow Wallpa...
This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...
In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...
This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...
of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...
In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...
In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...
In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...
In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...