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world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...
so much time to be bored. Jewett writes: "Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it" (759). Sylvia wa...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
The Bronte and Gilman writings are discussed. The significance of haunting in each is the focus of attention. This eight page pa...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...
call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...
really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...
In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...
In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...
A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...
on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on ...
and claims to be overtired, although she seems to be able to write some thousand words at a stretch. In this first section she als...