Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

it is cheap, their house is getting worked on, she needs to get away on order of the doctor

a "nervous comdition" now called post pardom psychosis, not extreme at first but grows as the story goes on, it is when you are depressed after the birth of your child

treats her like she is stupid, he does not respect her, but she does not question it because of the role of women in society

no imagination he needs physical symptoms to see she is not right, but it is a mental disease so since he cannot see it, he does not take it seriously

her husband

quite, alone, remote, which is bad for her condition

to not involve herself in a lot of things, to not read or write, physical and psychological rest.. she ignores it

actual person / doctor who treated the author with the same condition, and she wrote this stroy after she got better, but she only got better after she stopped following his advice, wrote this to inform the doctor about his completly wrong treatment of her disease

who ever put it up did not do it properly, repellent, revolting, unclean, fading, commits every artistic sin, ripped off in places

used to be a nursery but the bed is bolted, bars on the window, like a prison

to figure out the pattern

the nanny

sister in law

the control she wants, she is not crazy, there is not a pattern which drives her crazy

she exerts all her energy on being what her husband wants, causing herself to get more stressed and worse

her imagination ran ammuck when it came to the wall

now she can't think straight, she came to get better but the room and isolation makes her worse

ironic she is the most serious, but no one realizes it, she can let her gaurd down when he is not around, since he is not around, she believes her case is not that serious

over the paper, wants to figure that pattern out for herself, will kill for it, does not want anyone to touch it

she locked herself in, john breaks down the door, he sees what she has done to the room and faints and continues to do what she wants / walks over his body

1-autobiographical, 2-gothic, 3-femminist

Gilman had the same condition and same doctor who treated her illness the same as the character in the story, and she followed the advice for 3 months, she wrote this story as an example of what her future could have been is she didn't reject the advice

attermental ruin

charlotte perkins gilman

dreary setting, isolated, left in disrepair, unusual character, going crazy, violent, will kill for paper, mental collapse, death or her previous life

she at first represented the woman's role, husband patronized her, talked down to her, makes decisions for her, society kept her in but eventually she got out at last inspite of "you and jane"

represent women kept in by men and society, ripping the paper, the women in the paper, setting herself free

you is her husband john, and jane is herself in the 3rd person, or who she was when she obeyed society norms of women

society at that time only saw women as a good girl or a crazy outcast, she was the good girl but her insanity allows her to be herself because society does not care about her anymore and kicked her out so she became free to like life how she wants completly,