Okay, so...
I mistakenly last week wrote a blog on "Hills Like White Elephants", when it was supposed to be on "The Yellow Wallpaper".
So, this week I shall write about "The Yellow Wallpaper",
At first, this story confused me.
A woman, Jane, is narrating, and she seems very flamboyant and casually excited. She seems very odd. And she is telling her husband whom is a doctor that she is suffering from depression and she is always nervous. Her doctor husband who seems to win every argument because he is a doctor, tells her that what she is feeling is just temporary. He tells her to just rest and basically do nothing but domestic housewife things and to not even write, which is what she wants to do.
It seems Jane is not allowed to express herself and she is in a dominant-submissive type relationship. Her- of course being the submissive.
She makes up a woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper in her room up in her head.
And in the end she supposedly frees this woman.
She is symbolically wanting to free HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!
Ughhhhhhhh I despise marriages like this! Poor Jane.
What a wonderfully interesting and well written story. I enjoyed it very much.
I mistakenly last week wrote a blog on "Hills Like White Elephants", when it was supposed to be on "The Yellow Wallpaper".
So, this week I shall write about "The Yellow Wallpaper",
At first, this story confused me.
A woman, Jane, is narrating, and she seems very flamboyant and casually excited. She seems very odd. And she is telling her husband whom is a doctor that she is suffering from depression and she is always nervous. Her doctor husband who seems to win every argument because he is a doctor, tells her that what she is feeling is just temporary. He tells her to just rest and basically do nothing but domestic housewife things and to not even write, which is what she wants to do.
It seems Jane is not allowed to express herself and she is in a dominant-submissive type relationship. Her- of course being the submissive.
She makes up a woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper in her room up in her head.
And in the end she supposedly frees this woman.
She is symbolically wanting to free HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!
Ughhhhhhhh I despise marriages like this! Poor Jane.
What a wonderfully interesting and well written story. I enjoyed it very much.
I totally agree with your blog. It is a HORRIBLE feeling when you feel trapped in what is supposed to be a beautiful thing to be in when you are in a relationship. I understand that people stay in after you felt trapped the first time because they believe it gets better with time but just like in the story the Yellow Wallpaper it will never get better only worst. I loved your blog on this short story :)
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