Society’s Treatment of Women Revealed in The Yellow Wallpaper

Societys Treatment of Women Revealed in The yellowed wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman had problems. Most of those problems resulted from her nervous condition that was previously termed melancholia. She did not give in Gilman was a fighter. Instead of bowing to the disease, she wrote The discolor Wallpaper, a story mean to help other women suffering from a similar fate. Although this explanation reveals wherefore Gilman wrote the book, it does not reveal the true intention of the story. This is not merely the account of an insane woman. The narrators insanity is a symbol for Gilmans commentary on the evils of social conformity with relevance to the role of women in society. The narrator comes to realize the inhumanity in societys handling of women, and, as a result of her awakening, she cannot help but visualize her take in torment brought on by the old yellow wallpaper that hangs more or less her, a faded cage. The narrators name is left a mystery in order to give her u niversal appeal. The narrator could be and is every wife, every mother, every daughter, every woman. Gilman uses imagery and literary devices to pay off her moral of the mistreatment of women in the 19th 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 computer address of John, the husband. John is described as a man of a virtual(a) and ext... ...21-530. King, Jeanette, and Pam Morris. On Not Reading Between the Lines Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 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 Politics 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 Polity Press, 1995. Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. advanced York Pantheon Books, 1985.