Monday, April 26, 2010
The Yellow wall paper
The narrator has a nervous depression. She seems like everything is uncomfortable to her. John is her husband and also her doctor. He doesn't agree with her thoughts and her illness. The narrator has an extraordinary imaginations. Her husband wants to cure her even stop her to do any active things, especially writing. She doesn't like the yellow wallpaper in her room, and argues with John to repaper it again.
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Don't forget the objective of the author, which we discussed in class; she wanted to show the kind of cure that was prescribed for women with this 'nervous disorder' and what that treatment really might do to an intelligent woman. The author was given the same cure, and she rejected it. When she did, she got better. She says that she wrote this story so that other women would not be driven crazy by this treatment of 'total rest.'
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