When I moved into my new home, I loved the potential of the kitchen. Notice I said “potential.” It was spacious, had tons of cabinets and counter space, but was an amalgam of several previous tenant’s attempts to polish it. For starters, the cabinets were painted with about four coats of globbed-on white paint. The ...
If you are interested in this topic, another suggested reading is,” The Yellow Wallpaper.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” to make determined statements about feminism and individuality. Gilman does so by taking the reader through the terrors of one woman’s neurosis, her entire mental state characterized by her encounters with ...
Throughout time, mental illness has been misunderstood and treated with disregard to the ill person’s mental well being. For a long period, the only treatment option for a person suffering from mental illness was to lock him or her away in a hospital. But recently, changes have been made, and breakthroughs in the cause and ...
While typically examined as a feminist tract, The Yellow Wallpaper also presents us with a period piece on the attitudes of the medical community on mental illnesses. In the story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents to us a woman’s diary entries that reveal a progressive descent to insanity. An examination of the cause reveals many things. ...
