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how the narrator's relationship with the wallpaper changes and how it is reflective of her marriage.
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peri markakis - The woman in the story develops strong hatred for the yellow wall paper at first but becomes extremely atached and obsessive over the condition and patterns on the wall paper. She eventually tears down the wallpaper and destroys the wallpaper. This shows how her marriage is falling apart with John, who keeps consoling her in an infantile way. The consoling turns queer and patronizing and she snaps underher stress and ineffective encouragement.
ReplyDeleteshanelle,
ReplyDeleteTowards the beginning of the story the relationship of the narrator with the wallpaper was very confusing. The narrator was trying to find a pattern or something to follow along the wallpaper but couldn't and thought she seen a shadow behind it. The narrator finds the pattern to be horrid and to have too much going on which frustrates her. The narrator spends all her time trying to find a piece of repetition to the horrid pattern. The narrator wants to get away and but her husband won't allow her. Eventually she gets so fed up with the wallpaper s=that she begins to tear it all down. Once she tears it all down she feels very relieved and her relationship starts to get better and she begins to heal. The wallpaper was holding her back from overcoming her sickness and serving as a barrier.
Lee Grayson- The woman, as the piece progresses, seems to become more obsessed with the wallpaper, even imagining a woman that comes out of the paper and stalks around her house. She seems to become fond of the wallpaper as she spends more time with the paper than with her husband. It might even seem as though her relationship with the wallpaper replaced her relationships with actual living people, (maybe this is why she imagined a woman behind it)including her husband, who wouldn't listen to what she had to say. Also, I found it interesting that around the time she decided there was a woman in the paper, she also saw bars on the paper in the moonlight. Maybe subconsciously she thought of the paper as an extension of herself after a while, with the paper left alone up in the room with all the windows just as she was; a bit broken in places, just as she was; and with the woman trapped in the night, just as she was trapped in her own tired body all that time. And the strange, irrational pattern of the wallpaper that seems to never stay consistent, with another, equally an inconsistent subpattern beneath it, might even be symbolic of her marriage in a way; her husband obviously loves her very deeply, yet won't listen to her as she's depressed and going mad alone all day; he does his best to take care of her, but insists that there is nothing actually wrong with her; he wants her happiness, but won't allow her to write. Such contradictions and inconsistencies might mirror the pattern of the wallpaper.
ReplyDeleteThere are many clues (adjectives/verbs) that bring John and his wife to life, and tell us about their personalities. Some examples of adjectives and/or verbs that bring John to life are; "practical to the extreme", he doesn't listen to his wife, he's a Physician, he thinks his wife's condition can be cured by bedrest, lastly, other than not listening to his wife, he is very caring about his wife. Some examples of clues that bring John's wife's character to life are; She thinks the house is haunted, she tears down the wallpaper, she tends to blame how she feels on her "condition" or the wallpaper, and lastly, she seems to be the opposite of John.
ReplyDeleteIn the beggining, John's wife hated the wallpaper, and found ecerything about it revolting. Although soon enough she became interested in it, and then tore it down after she got "better". The tearing down of the wallpaper symbolizes John's wife breaking free from her husband's and everyone else's control.
Emil McGriff-The narrator's relatioship with the wallpaper changes and is reflective of her marriage. As her interview goes on Charlotte's opionon on her husband changes torwads the wosrt. her husband keeps patrinizing her about how its giong to be alright and everything will be fine.She sees herself as being a extenstion of the paper. She really hates the wall paper and the smell bothers her. At the end of the interview she tries to rip the wall paper off which symbolizes their marraige falling apart.
ReplyDeleteMarissa,
ReplyDeleteThe narrator's relationship with the wallpaper is reflective to her marriage realtionship because she has times that she does not like the way that the wallpaper looks. Then at times she gets used to the wallpaper, just as she gets used to her husband. Her husband John constantly tells Charlotte that she has a mental problem. Charlotte does not belive that she has a problem, she wants to be able to do normal things and have a steady life style. John deals with people that hsve problems so he thinks that she has problems too. He wants her to believe it, he keeps on telling her that she has a problem so she can believe it. There are times that Charlotte does not like the wallpaper that is in her room and she gets bored with it. At times that she wants to change the wallpaper. Charlotte sees her self behind the wallpaper. The metaphore that they used in this story is that john is the wallpaper and he is the one that is holdong Charlotte back from getting better. Once Charlotte starts to peel off the wallpapaer john starts to put a smile on his face. Charlotte starts to feel better once she starts to rip down the wallpaper. Once Charlotte has taken down all of the wallpaper and her husband John returns to the house and he sees all that she has done he fanits in joy. The wallpaper was a way for charlotte to get better and to fix her relationship with her husband.
Maddy Orcutt
ReplyDeleteThe narrator's relationship with the wallpaper is confusing. At first the wallpaper made her nervous and then it made her mad. She couldn't figure out the way the pattern worked and how eveything within the pattern connected. As the story goes on she becomes more aware of what the wallpaper means. The narrator kept thinking this women was behind the wallpaper shaking it trying it get out. She couldn't figure out who the woman was that was trying to get out but eventually she realized it was herself. When the story ended all the wallpaper was ripped off and the women behind the wallpaper was free. Or in other words the narrator recovered from her depression and she was free at last.
It was reflective of her marriage because her marriage has made her crazy just like the wallpaper. She couldn't figure out the wallpaper at first and then she became angrier and angrier with the wallpaper as she did with her marriage. So as the story ended she felt relieved as she did with her marriage when John fainted.
Lee Ana Hess
ReplyDeleteThe narrator's relationship with the wallpaper is strange. At first she thought everything about it was awful;the color , design and smell. She spent many hours in this room because it was a nursery for her child. During these hours, she grew a love/hate relationship with the paper. She loved to look at the wallapaper because, to her, it looked like it changed each time and was intresting. She hated the paper because it was reflecting the way she felt. There was a part the the short story where it said the woman was trying to free herslf from the bars in the wallpaper.
This was telling us that she was sick of her husband telling her what she can and can not do. Ripping the wall paparer was symbolism of her trying to free herself from the orders her husband
Nautica Graham
ReplyDeleteAt the begining of the short story the main character had a problem with the wallpaper. Something about the wallpaper made her feel uneasy. Many times throughout the short story she described the images that seem to erect out of the wallpaper. She explained how at first they began as subtle contradictory shapes and then they began to transform into a woman or women over time. A "creeping" woman or "creeping" women to be exact. On numerous occasions she complains to her husband about leaving, and about all the things that she dislikes about the room; that he chose to put her in. The main character in the short story seemed crazy, and you get a sudden sense of what she explains in detail about her life is a lie; and she may in fact BE crazy, like her husband alludes. Her husband seemed very absent and he almost seemed to avoid and deflect her many pleads for comfort. As the story closes the sense of craziness doesnt demenish at all and the creeping women in the wallpaper suddenly reflects the fact that the main character's husband John may be "creeping" with other women. The main charcter seemed to lose her mind, because of her lack of NOT knowing.
Helene
ReplyDeleteThe narrator has a somewhat 'rough' relationship with the wall paper. She clearly states in description that she hates the wallpaper with a passion. She reffers to the color of the wallpeper in her room as "repellent" and "almost revolting". Also the wallpaper isn't helping her get any better because she obsesses about how she does not like it in her writing all the time. This is reflective on her marriage because her husband John, who is also a doctor, is basically obsessed with the narrators sickness.He tells her she can't do certain things because she is "sick" and that is not helping her get better either; in comparison to the wallpaper.Just as well, Johns' lack to make her feel more comfortable by tearing down the wallpeper puts strain on the relationship; however she continues to love John. However in the end of the short story the narrator, Charlotte, ends up locking herself in the room and tearing down all the wallpeper because she can't stand it anymore. The wallpaper ended up being a way for Charlotte to fix her relationship with her husband.
Olivia
ReplyDeleteIn the story, Charlotte Gilman hates the wallpaper in the room where her and her husband are living for the next three months. She describes it as "repellent, almost revolting". Throughout the story she describes how she hates the wallpaper, how it's not dull enough to ignore, but also pronounced enough to get your attention and make you keep looking. She says it's even bad for her baby. At the end of the story she locks herself in her room and tears off all the wallpaper because she can't stand it anymore. This is reflective of her marriage because the wallpaper makes her even more nervous than she already is, and since John doesn't let her write and makes her stay in the room all day, that also makes her more nervous.
Shaundrana.
ReplyDeleteThe narrator's relationship with the wallpaper changes because in the beginning she disliked the color stating that "the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow" which makes her feel sick. As the story continues John's wife becomes more interested in the wallpaper, looking at its "creeping" design that went all over the wall but mostly noticeable around the headboard. She is noticing that their is a woman that appears in the yellow wallpaper. This lady is talking to her, as if walls could speak and telling her that her husband is cheating on her. The wallpaper reflects their marriage in many ways. It lets her know that the walls have eyes too. It actually made her become more observant of what goes on around her. She started to pay attention to more details and she was opened to her husband about new things.
The narrators feelings for the wallpaper refelcts her marriage in many different ways. One reason is that at the beginning of the story the narrator really doesnt like the wallpapaer. She says "i never saw a worse paper in my life". This obviously meaning that she really dreads the wallpaper thus hinting things on her marriage. The narrator at the beginning of the story tells about her communication between herself and her husband. When she says that her husband doesnt believe that shes sick she sets a feeling of distrust in her marriage. Also the narrator seems disconnected from her relationship because she doesnt really sound in love when she refers to her husband. As the story moves on the narrator is now living with the wallpaper as if like the wallpaper has won the figth between her hating it and her taking it out, this reflects the issue with her husband and him telling her that she shouldnt work. This makes her seem like she is being told what to do.
ReplyDeleteBRENNAN REAVES-CHARLOTTE(the narrator)relatisonship with the wallpaper was a promblem from the beging she commnted "the color is rellent,almost revolthing smouldering unclean" but overtime it became wores and her re;ationshipwithher husben bcomes way worse and starts to think hes patrinizing her he repets " physician theres nothing worng with you" she looks her self in side the room and begains to rip the wallpaper as her husben fants this shows how the marriage fell has her obbse grow.
ReplyDeleteWiilis A. Brooks-The narrator in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a deeply tortured wife and writer who appears to be normal from the begining like most writers who eventually go off the deep end do. Another baffling observation is that these two Physicians of "high standing" do not belieive she is sick, yet both agree she is suffering from a nervous depression and they adminster tonics to her daily. One can not but think that a nervous depression is more a psychological problem and she needs a therapist more than tonics. Alas the focus of this womens eventual nervous breakdown is the ominous beaten strips of yellow wallpaper. This wallpaper hangs in the room where she spends the majority of her time cooped up cut off from human contact for the most part. She finds herself disgusted with not only the wallpaper ,but the whole room. Again as more time alone and in distress passes by the waalpaper becomes her focal point and obsession, study it's many twist and turns and patterns that are there one minute and not the next, she even sees faint shadowy figures now moving in and outside the wallpaper. When she finally does snap she is one of those figures one of those people crying out for help to escape the grasp of The Yellow Wallpaper.
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteWhen the narrator begins to tells a story of emotions. In the beginning of the story, the narrator describes herself as being useless. Her husband is very demanding. She has a sickness of nerve depression and she feels that the only way for her to get over her sickness is by getting active and writing. The Yellow Wallpaper in their vacation house makes her sick. She feels as if the wallpaper is holding her back from thoughts that she has within, that she feels need to come out. She hates the wallpaper. She finds herself becoming more depressed because of the horrible pattern of the wallpaper. As the story goes on, she realizes the the wallpaper is telling her a story. With her believing that the wallpaper serves as a prison with bars, she begins to picture women being trapped behind the wallpaper. She finally realizes that she, too, is trapped behind the wallpaper. As the story goes on, she is dealing with trying to escape the wallpaper and her hopeless marriage. Her husband is a loving man but he does not want to put up with all of her nagging because he knows that she is depressed. Soon, she gets fed up with the wallpaper and decides to smudge it and tear it down. "I've got out at last", this shows that she finally feels that she has escaped the horibble Yellow Wallpaper.