Wednesday, May 6, 2020
The Yellow Wallpaper †Charlotte Perskin Gilman. “The Yellow
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perskin Gilman â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper†by Charlotte Perskin Gilman stated that the erroneous of â€Å"rest cue†treatment method of the husband – the theraphy physician, which leads the wife insane. The â€Å"rest cue†method that the patient have to â€Å"take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is, and tonics, and journey, and air, and exercise†(Gilman 308) and they are â€Å"absolutely forbidden to work†until they are well again which is described by the narrator and this method is the reason why the narrator from a normal woman increases depressing and stress day by day until she is insane. At the beginning of the story, the narrator described where her treatment as â€Å"the haunted house†. She feels something strange†¦show more content†¦But John would not hear of it†(Gilman 308). – â€Å"I wonder – I begin to think – I wish John would take me away from here†(Gilman 314). She said she would hate herself if she had to live in the treatment room long â€Å"the paint and paper look as if a boys’ school had used it. It is tripped off-the paper- in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life†– â€Å"the color is repellant†– â€Å"a smoldering unclear yellow, strangely faded by slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly Sulphur tint in others.†– â€Å"I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long†(Gilman 309). The treatment doesn’t help reduce her stressful and depression. She feels worse than before. She doesn’t feel like writing before since she moved into the yellow wallpaper – a nursery room. Besides, she is abandoned because her husband away all day. The lonely fe eling make her â€Å"nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing†(Gilman 309). Preventing from moving and working treatment and focusing on resting and being alone is a wrong treatment method. The narrator gets tired and tired every day and is more nervous because she just feels like â€Å"a comparative burden†to her husband. One more time, the husband rejects her feeling – she want get out of the house to feel the fresh air and meet people around which makes she feels relax and happy – â€Å"I’m
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