READING RESPONSE
A reader response about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" published first in the New England Magazine.
The yellow wall paper is an interesting story which has a lot to discuss. The story talks about a mentally ill woman and that her husband has to take care after her. As a doctor John has convinced his wife that she needs to rest in order to get rid of her depression, and that 'as a doctor' he knows well how to heal her. The situation worsened in the moment that her husband John didn't heard her ideas on feeling a way better, such as writing or hanging out would be a better cure for her mental state. He never heard her even when she asked to change her room which was her biggest problem, just because he thought that her requests were coming by her depression, strange ones for him, but completely needed for her. It seems like woman when they got married start to depend completely to their man, like they can guide her as their own, as a leader. He was leading her till she started to believe that she was sick for real and powerless enough to control her own life ,where it completely violates her rights on making decisions about herself. Even thought she continues feeling scared by her room especially the yellow wallpaper, he dismisses her fears. I think she became more obsessed with the wallpaper till she started to distrust her husband ,till she..became hopelessly insane. And I wonder why John as 'being a doctor' didn't knew that the yellow color abrasive when overused, and that gives rise to fear, anxiety, and provoke depression. She closed the story by telling her husband "I've got out at least,in spite of you and Jane, And I've pulled off most of the paper so you can't pull be back!" And with this phrase I think that she is saying both of them that she is free and that his way of healing her failed. Coming in a conclusion that even 'SHE' knows her way, her best. Even 'SHE' has a voice to be heard, an idea to putted on action, a thought, a feeling as a Man, and that they should be treated equal as individuals, human beings.
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