Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Yellow Wallpaper
This story was kind of funny and cute.I had to read it at least 5 times to fully understand it. From my understanding this story is about a lady who is going through a depression problem but her husband feel she is going through a slight hysterical tendency. Now a hysterical tendencies are caused in women,they go through a depression stage of being lazy, not happy, and many more womanly issues. The lady in the story expresses her depression very weird. She uses a journal to write down everything that goes on in the house that her husband brought her to so she can feel better.Her husband does not know that she keeps a journal so she hides it every time he comes in the room. The details on the wall is mainly what she writes about and it expresses how she feel as a women to me. It is almost like she is trapped in a house that her husband put her in to have control of everything she is doing.
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I must completly agree with your blog. She shows a great deal of depression and she gets through it by writing in her hidden journal. I must also agree with the fact that her husband is holding her back. I agree with this because in the story when he fainted, he fell right in front of her path. But i must say this was a great story.
ReplyDeleteShadae--interesting interpretation of that event as symbol--but don't take her too literally...
ReplyDeleteYes, you're both on track about the depression and its possible causes--preconceptions about women social mores, etc.-- and about the journals as bot symbolizing and a means of working through some of these conflicts.
Yes I agree, her husband was completely holding her back through her treatment. The narrator was bound to her room and was forbidden to write and express her creativity. I believe it was the treatment that ultimately drove her mad.
ReplyDeleteI dunno about the whole feminist aspect of this story that everyone seems to be siting. Granted I see the symbolism of the creeping girls behind the bars representing he being trapped by her husbands ways - but I feel the tale was more about her losing her mind than anything else. Her scurrying around the room's perimeter scraping her shoulder against the already made marks from past people living there. It's a horror story about a woman losing her mind and seeing things - not an 'ode to' woman's rights. I think you are trying to find a theme within the two past stories that just isn't present.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that there is a feminist aspect to the story. The men that we hear about in this story especially her husband john kind of hold her back from doing what she wants to do. She wants to work but he wont let her, she likes to write in her diary but if John knew he wouldnt let her is like everything she wants and what she does is control by him. Also when she ask him to ripped the yellow wallpaper from the room he refuse to, when she wanted to moved from the room and take one from downstairs he didnt allow it either. So as we can see there is feminism involve in the story.
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