Postpartum Depression In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis
In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, John is a likely reason causing his own wife to go crazy. Throughout the story, the woman keeps on saying what she thinks would be the best for her, but John, like the other physicians of the time, is being narrow minded and is only letting her do what he thinks will help since he is the physician. Research nowadays has proven that the things she wants are actually what would have helped her get better in the first place. The best treatment to depression is to get up, go do stuff, and spend time with friends and family. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is trying to get across how women were seen as such fragile beings, and no one would listen to what they thought was best for them.
John and other physicians of the time thought that the best way to treat postpartum depression was to pull the woman away from her baby, and bring her to a vacation home that was isolated from all of society. This was not an effective way to treat this illness because it made the women of this time not want to have their baby anymore. The narrator at the beginning of the story was worrying about how her baby was doing: “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (772). After the narrator was isolated …show more content…
The woman knew that she needed to be around people to get her mind off of other things: “I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia” (775). John insisted she be alone to get better, but he does not realize how insane she is making herself being alone. Research shows that your mental state will improve if you spend time with family and friends and are not in an isolated environment (Alex). Physicians did not really realize the damage they were doing isolating women with postpartum
In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, John is a likely reason causing his own wife to go crazy. Throughout the story, the woman keeps on saying what she thinks would be the best for her, but John, like the other physicians of the time, is being narrow minded and is only letting her do what he thinks will help since he is the physician. Research nowadays has proven that the things she wants are actually what would have helped her get better in the first place. The best treatment to depression is to get up, go do stuff, and spend time with friends and family. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is trying to get across how women were seen as such fragile beings, and no one would listen to what they thought was best for them.
John and other physicians of the time thought that the best way to treat postpartum depression was to pull the woman away from her baby, and bring her to a vacation home that was isolated from all of society. This was not an effective way to treat this illness because it made the women of this time not want to have their baby anymore. The narrator at the beginning of the story was worrying about how her baby was doing: “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (772). After the narrator was isolated …show more content…
The woman knew that she needed to be around people to get her mind off of other things: “I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia” (775). John insisted she be alone to get better, but he does not realize how insane she is making herself being alone. Research shows that your mental state will improve if you spend time with family and friends and are not in an isolated environment (Alex). Physicians did not really realize the damage they were doing isolating women with postpartum