Plot
" The yellow wallpaper " is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This is a story of a women and her husband named John. The narrator begins her journal by marveling at the grandeur of the house and grounds her husband has taken for their summer vocation. She describes it in romantic terms or even a haunted house and wonders how they were able to afford it. She is suffering form "nervous depression" and of her marriage. She complains that her husband John, who is also her doctor belittles both her illness and thoughts in general. Her treatment requires that she do almost nothing active, and also forbidden from working and writing. The narrator begins describing house. She decribes elements such "ring and things" also the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom, which is strange. Soon the yellow wallpaper dominates the narrator's imagination. By the end of the story she is hopelessly insane.
Reading Response
This is a story of a women who suffers from depression after giving birth to her child. Even the closest people for her as her husband John do not let her take care for her child and she is used to stay all the day and night in her bedroom alone. The significance of the story introduces the issues of 'women' in society. The most important theme of the story is "Feminism" which brought a little bit of the idea of gender equality in 19th century. In this story the women is limitied to do things hy her husband. It was that time when 'men' had the "power". In my opinion, even the mentality of differing women from man is present should change. We are equal.
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