The Yellow Wall Paper - Reader Response
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Reader response – The yellow wallpaper
The story “ the yellow wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts the story of an insane woman and how psychiatric treatment of the late nineteenth century affected her and her family . a brief description about her husband would be that he was a physician who was a very caring and loving man . and despite his wife’s mental illness he , not even once expressed a sign of coldness toward her . John , his wife and her sister moved temporarily into another house where John thought his wife would get the ample amount of rest and air she needed . evidence from the story which further supported the fact that John’s wife was having a slight hysterical tendency is when John tells her that “if I ( the wife) don’t pick up faster , he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in fall”.( Gilman 426) . Weir Mitchell was a well known 19th century Physician who was known for his treatment methods for psychosomatic illnesses . As a way of getting a lot of air , John allotted themselves the nursety at the top of the house where there would be a rather obstruction free flow of air . one of the major things that this woman observed and disliked was the yellow wall paper that covered the walls of the room . In the beginning she rather found it repulsive and repugnant . the wife began to see weird inanimate patterns on the wall at first , which to her , seemed to move later on in the story . when she expressed her feeling to leave the house her husband informed her of her steady healing since she’d been to the house. The husband also adds that “ No one but myself can help me out of it , that I must use my will and self control and not let my fancies run away with me”. ( Gilman ,427). Soon the weird looking patterns revealed a woman , who , to her, crept about during the day and was behind bars . she soon found that the woman was shaking...
Reader response – The yellow wallpaper
The story “ the yellow wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts the story of an insane woman and how psychiatric treatment of the late nineteenth century affected her and her family . a brief description about her husband would be that he was a physician who was a very caring and loving man . and despite his wife’s mental illness he , not even once expressed a sign of coldness toward her . John , his wife and her sister moved temporarily into another house where John thought his wife would get the ample amount of rest and air she needed . evidence from the story which further supported the fact that John’s wife was having a slight hysterical tendency is when John tells her that “if I ( the wife) don’t pick up faster , he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in fall”.( Gilman 426) . Weir Mitchell was a well known 19th century Physician who was known for his treatment methods for psychosomatic illnesses . As a way of getting a lot of air , John allotted themselves the nursety at the top of the house where there would be a rather obstruction free flow of air . one of the major things that this woman observed and disliked was the yellow wall paper that covered the walls of the room . In the beginning she rather found it repulsive and repugnant . the wife began to see weird inanimate patterns on the wall at first , which to her , seemed to move later on in the story . when she expressed her feeling to leave the house her husband informed her of her steady healing since she’d been to the house. The husband also adds that “ No one but myself can help me out of it , that I must use my will and self control and not let my fancies run away with me”. ( Gilman ,427). Soon the weird looking patterns revealed a woman , who , to her, crept about during the day and was behind bars . she soon found that the woman was shaking...