The Yellow Wallpaper Compare And Contrast Essay
Compare and Contrast
“Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are stories and reading that show the family relationships. They are two different stories but have quite similarities. The similarity between the two stories is to me is the reaction of their love one when at time they are too assertive, forceful and overbearing towards people they care. In “Two Kinds” story the author demonstrates the relationship between a mother and daughter which is the outline of the main character Jing-mei Woo’s childhood and the effects of her mother’s high expectations for her life. Whereas, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that illustrate the bond between a husband and wife. According to the Suess, Barbara …show more content…
A. “the Yellow Wallpaper” provide valuable insight into the ways in which Gilman’s story chronicles how women have been socially, historically, and medically constructed as not only weak, but sick beings. In “two Kinds” validates a bossy and firm mother that desire to make the narrator Jing-mei into a musical prodigy in order to compete with one her friend’s daughters.
The plot focus on two themes: the American Dream and the tension between Jing-mei and her Mother. To Jing Mei’s Mother, “America is where dream do come true, pushes Jing-mei to have such a high expectations of her daughter by hoping that her daughter would be a great success one day. She has “no idea exactly where her daughter talent lies on”, but she thinks that her daughter has great capability. It is a matter of finding what exactly Jing-mei talent is. First, Mrs. Woo tries to transform into a child actress, then tries intellectual tests, lastly she thinks she might be a pianist (p.385-388).
In The article “why Chinese Mother Are Superior,” By Amy Chua, she emphasized that children raised by Chinese are more victorious than children that are raised by Western Mothers. Chua declared that the strict and direct nature of the Chinese parent style allows their children to have excellence in everything that they do. Which explains why Jing-mei from the story “Two Kinds” was as at time bossy, pushy, harsh toward her daughter to be successful part of the cause was being a Chinese mother as well that is in their nature to push their children to be
successful. Chua also talks about in her article that Chinese parents are sure that always know what is best for them. According to Chua, Chinese parent beliefs enable their kids to excel since they result in a strict, direct and strong education. She stated that there is no such thing as giving up. According to Chua, Chinese believe “it is crucial to override preferences” no matter what because pandering t children wants and desires get nowhere. She did all in her power, including threatening, insulting and screaming until she lost her voice, to make sure her daughter were straight-A students. They were kept on a strict schedule and not allowed to have sleepovers or watch television.
Whereas in “Two Kinds” Jing-mei, also tries as hard as she could to push her daughter. She prepares her into becoming a Chinese Shirley Temple which was an American child actress. She had her hair cut short just so she could look like Shirley Temple. “Instead of getting big fat curls, she emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black Fuzz’’ as Amy Tan describes in the story in (p.382-83). Despite all the transformation, it still had not made her into the prodigy that the mother was hoping for. Then she tries intellectual test clipped from popular magazines: Ripley’s Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest (Tan 383). She says that “I hated the test ’’ (Tan 384). She did not show any talent in these particular genera either. Then lastly she tries to put her into piano lesson, which she had to trade housecleaning for her to take piano lesson. With all of those highly pressures and expectations of her mother trying to make her into a prodigy came the outburst her child when she said to her mother “No!” I said, and “I now felt stronger, as if my true had finally emerged”. “So this was what had been inside me all along”. “No! I won’t!” “I screamed” (Tan 389). She finally stood up to her mother with rage and she screams out loud she basically not her mother expectation, she is not what her mother was hoping for. Its show you that being hard on your children by pushing them hard to be perfect the way you want them to be could causes them to outburst in ways you were not looking for, especially if it’s not the child own dream or desire. However, According to Stein Karen F. the central theme of Tan’s stories is the conflict faced by Chinese Americans who find themselves alienated both from their American milieu from Chinese parents and heritage. Stein Karen F. stated that “Tan’s stories derive from her own experience as a Chinese American and from stories of Chinese life her mother told her”. She mentions that they reflect her early conflict with her strongly opinionated mother and her growing understanding and appreciation of her mother’s past and strength in adapting to her new country. In Jettedlines.com/literature/critical-analysis of two kinds by Amy tan that “the root of the story is the interpersonal dissonance that the phenomenon of mass immigration creates”. That in Two Kinds, Amy Tan builds up the romantic idea of cultural origins and lost ethnic essence in order to completely undermine and reconfigure the view of an ethnic essence. The mother-daughter bond is symbolized by the analogy of native-foreigner.
Meanwhile, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes how pressured and overbearing at time she feel feels by her “Doctor” husband for her to get well. This story is based around a first person narrative of woman which is Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Doctor wife suffering from depression after her child’s birth. John Charlotte Perkins Husband who believes that his wife is suffering nothing more but a minor out of control propensity. He prescribes her the “rest cure” confining her to the nursery and forbidding her to exercise her creative imagination in any way. Throughout the story the story he cares for her in juvenile method, referring to her as his “blesses little goose” and “little girl”. He is fixed in his authoritative position as husband and doctor. He believes in a strict, paternalistic split among men and women; men work outside of the home, as he does, while women like Jennie, his sister, and Mary, the nanny, are likely in the house. You could clearly see in the story that he loves his wife and depends on her for his personal joy. Yet he is not capable to resolve her original needs with his own rationality or prejudiced outlooks of the time period. His wife is not capable or unwilling to hold on to the ideal model f domesticity expressed by at that time, and John is at a loss as to what to do. His solutions are to use Weir Mitchell’s rest cure to “fix” his wife, and he does not understand that his own actions push her over the edge of insanity. Apparently for her own benefit, her husband who is presented as a loving and caring man says she must stay in bed in a room which is distinguished for its weird yellow wallpaper. Having nothing else to do, but to spend most of her time in the room looking at that wallpaper and trying to trace and work out the pattern. As the story processes she slowly goes insane and starts to see things such as bars in the wallpaper. She also sees women in the wallpaper and thinks that she is one. Not having to do what she loves to do which was writing, and having to accomplish her husband expectation of her to get well by doing exactly what he says backfired and gotten her worst. In the meantime, According to Oak Lawn “The Yellow Wallpaper” is short story about a woman who has a rational illness but cannot heal due to her husband’s lack of faith. Oak Lawn stated that the story appears to take place during a time period where woman were oppressed. During that time woman were treated as second rate people in society during this time period. Oak Lawn talks about that Charlotte Perkins Gilman very perfectly portrays the thinking process of the society during the time period in which “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written. In that period of time men are portrayed to really see women as children more than as individuals. Gilman shows the male perspective through dialogue because the Narrator explains that no matter what he says her husband Shrugs Away her illness. He believe that his wife a conformist by enforcing his beliefs on her. The husband truly believes that nothing is wrong with his wife so he ignores the problem and adds to his wife’s illness. According, to Kerr, Calum A this makes her feel like a burden because while her condition feels serious enough to her, it is obviously seen as a minor irritation by her husband. Meanwhile, St. Jean, Shawn mentions that the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrates the struggle that women had to go through in order to be heard. By using the aspects of female criticism one analyze the “Yellow Wallpaper” by examining dialogue from both the perspective of males and the perspective of females, and through symbolism. This story was written during a time where women suffrage was hardly spoken of and women were treated inferior to men. This story demonstrated the struggle women everywhere had n terms of being heard and respected.
In the article of “myth of individualism” this books talks about how to be a free thinker and how to make your own choices, tell your own story and to make your own research. Callero shows how powerful social forces shape individual lives in subtle but compelling ways. By the Knowing the limit of individual effort and control, we get to sight our own life and the life of other. This reading is in regard of how people should be able to make their own choices or their decision that is convenient to them. It relates the story “Two Kinds” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” because it tells how both individuals in each story were not able to make their own decision.
Lastly, although “two Kinds” and “The yellow wallpaper” are two different stories but the relations that both stories have in command is the impact of the character have on someone else. The pressure on having to leave up to ones expectation, pushes them to their limits causes them to fail to accomplish. Although the person that cared for them wanted the best for them, if they had allowed them to do what they desire the outcome would be more positive. Work Cited
AMY TAN “Two Kinds” Literature: A Portable Anthology Ed Janet E. Gardener, et al. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 382-391. Print.
Callero, Peter L. Myth of individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives. Trans. Rowman. Littlefield Publishing Group: 2009. Print
Charlotte P. Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” Literature: A Portable Anthology ED Janet E. Gardener. Et al. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 76-89. Print
Kerr, Calum A. Literary Context in Short Stories: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Literary Analysis of “The Yellow Wallpaper” By aig123, Oak Lawn, IL
St. Jean, Shawn. “Hanging “The Yellow Wall-Paper”: Feminism And Textual Studies.” Feminist
Studies 28.2 (2002): 397. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Dec. 2015
Stein, Karen F. “Amy Tan.” Critical Survey Of Short Fiction, Second Revised edition (2001): 1-3 Literary Reference Center. Web. 12 Dec. 2015
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Jottedlines.com/literature/critical-analysis-of-two-kinds-by-amy-tan/
“Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are stories and reading that show the family relationships. They are two different stories but have quite similarities. The similarity between the two stories is to me is the reaction of their love one when at time they are too assertive, forceful and overbearing towards people they care. In “Two Kinds” story the author demonstrates the relationship between a mother and daughter which is the outline of the main character Jing-mei Woo’s childhood and the effects of her mother’s high expectations for her life. Whereas, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that illustrate the bond between a husband and wife. According to the Suess, Barbara …show more content…
A. “the Yellow Wallpaper” provide valuable insight into the ways in which Gilman’s story chronicles how women have been socially, historically, and medically constructed as not only weak, but sick beings. In “two Kinds” validates a bossy and firm mother that desire to make the narrator Jing-mei into a musical prodigy in order to compete with one her friend’s daughters.
The plot focus on two themes: the American Dream and the tension between Jing-mei and her Mother. To Jing Mei’s Mother, “America is where dream do come true, pushes Jing-mei to have such a high expectations of her daughter by hoping that her daughter would be a great success one day. She has “no idea exactly where her daughter talent lies on”, but she thinks that her daughter has great capability. It is a matter of finding what exactly Jing-mei talent is. First, Mrs. Woo tries to transform into a child actress, then tries intellectual tests, lastly she thinks she might be a pianist (p.385-388).
In The article “why Chinese Mother Are Superior,” By Amy Chua, she emphasized that children raised by Chinese are more victorious than children that are raised by Western Mothers. Chua declared that the strict and direct nature of the Chinese parent style allows their children to have excellence in everything that they do. Which explains why Jing-mei from the story “Two Kinds” was as at time bossy, pushy, harsh toward her daughter to be successful part of the cause was being a Chinese mother as well that is in their nature to push their children to be
successful. Chua also talks about in her article that Chinese parents are sure that always know what is best for them. According to Chua, Chinese parent beliefs enable their kids to excel since they result in a strict, direct and strong education. She stated that there is no such thing as giving up. According to Chua, Chinese believe “it is crucial to override preferences” no matter what because pandering t children wants and desires get nowhere. She did all in her power, including threatening, insulting and screaming until she lost her voice, to make sure her daughter were straight-A students. They were kept on a strict schedule and not allowed to have sleepovers or watch television.
Whereas in “Two Kinds” Jing-mei, also tries as hard as she could to push her daughter. She prepares her into becoming a Chinese Shirley Temple which was an American child actress. She had her hair cut short just so she could look like Shirley Temple. “Instead of getting big fat curls, she emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black Fuzz’’ as Amy Tan describes in the story in (p.382-83). Despite all the transformation, it still had not made her into the prodigy that the mother was hoping for. Then she tries intellectual test clipped from popular magazines: Ripley’s Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest (Tan 383). She says that “I hated the test ’’ (Tan 384). She did not show any talent in these particular genera either. Then lastly she tries to put her into piano lesson, which she had to trade housecleaning for her to take piano lesson. With all of those highly pressures and expectations of her mother trying to make her into a prodigy came the outburst her child when she said to her mother “No!” I said, and “I now felt stronger, as if my true had finally emerged”. “So this was what had been inside me all along”. “No! I won’t!” “I screamed” (Tan 389). She finally stood up to her mother with rage and she screams out loud she basically not her mother expectation, she is not what her mother was hoping for. Its show you that being hard on your children by pushing them hard to be perfect the way you want them to be could causes them to outburst in ways you were not looking for, especially if it’s not the child own dream or desire. However, According to Stein Karen F. the central theme of Tan’s stories is the conflict faced by Chinese Americans who find themselves alienated both from their American milieu from Chinese parents and heritage. Stein Karen F. stated that “Tan’s stories derive from her own experience as a Chinese American and from stories of Chinese life her mother told her”. She mentions that they reflect her early conflict with her strongly opinionated mother and her growing understanding and appreciation of her mother’s past and strength in adapting to her new country. In Jettedlines.com/literature/critical-analysis of two kinds by Amy tan that “the root of the story is the interpersonal dissonance that the phenomenon of mass immigration creates”. That in Two Kinds, Amy Tan builds up the romantic idea of cultural origins and lost ethnic essence in order to completely undermine and reconfigure the view of an ethnic essence. The mother-daughter bond is symbolized by the analogy of native-foreigner.
Meanwhile, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes how pressured and overbearing at time she feel feels by her “Doctor” husband for her to get well. This story is based around a first person narrative of woman which is Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Doctor wife suffering from depression after her child’s birth. John Charlotte Perkins Husband who believes that his wife is suffering nothing more but a minor out of control propensity. He prescribes her the “rest cure” confining her to the nursery and forbidding her to exercise her creative imagination in any way. Throughout the story the story he cares for her in juvenile method, referring to her as his “blesses little goose” and “little girl”. He is fixed in his authoritative position as husband and doctor. He believes in a strict, paternalistic split among men and women; men work outside of the home, as he does, while women like Jennie, his sister, and Mary, the nanny, are likely in the house. You could clearly see in the story that he loves his wife and depends on her for his personal joy. Yet he is not capable to resolve her original needs with his own rationality or prejudiced outlooks of the time period. His wife is not capable or unwilling to hold on to the ideal model f domesticity expressed by at that time, and John is at a loss as to what to do. His solutions are to use Weir Mitchell’s rest cure to “fix” his wife, and he does not understand that his own actions push her over the edge of insanity. Apparently for her own benefit, her husband who is presented as a loving and caring man says she must stay in bed in a room which is distinguished for its weird yellow wallpaper. Having nothing else to do, but to spend most of her time in the room looking at that wallpaper and trying to trace and work out the pattern. As the story processes she slowly goes insane and starts to see things such as bars in the wallpaper. She also sees women in the wallpaper and thinks that she is one. Not having to do what she loves to do which was writing, and having to accomplish her husband expectation of her to get well by doing exactly what he says backfired and gotten her worst. In the meantime, According to Oak Lawn “The Yellow Wallpaper” is short story about a woman who has a rational illness but cannot heal due to her husband’s lack of faith. Oak Lawn stated that the story appears to take place during a time period where woman were oppressed. During that time woman were treated as second rate people in society during this time period. Oak Lawn talks about that Charlotte Perkins Gilman very perfectly portrays the thinking process of the society during the time period in which “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written. In that period of time men are portrayed to really see women as children more than as individuals. Gilman shows the male perspective through dialogue because the Narrator explains that no matter what he says her husband Shrugs Away her illness. He believe that his wife a conformist by enforcing his beliefs on her. The husband truly believes that nothing is wrong with his wife so he ignores the problem and adds to his wife’s illness. According, to Kerr, Calum A this makes her feel like a burden because while her condition feels serious enough to her, it is obviously seen as a minor irritation by her husband. Meanwhile, St. Jean, Shawn mentions that the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrates the struggle that women had to go through in order to be heard. By using the aspects of female criticism one analyze the “Yellow Wallpaper” by examining dialogue from both the perspective of males and the perspective of females, and through symbolism. This story was written during a time where women suffrage was hardly spoken of and women were treated inferior to men. This story demonstrated the struggle women everywhere had n terms of being heard and respected.
In the article of “myth of individualism” this books talks about how to be a free thinker and how to make your own choices, tell your own story and to make your own research. Callero shows how powerful social forces shape individual lives in subtle but compelling ways. By the Knowing the limit of individual effort and control, we get to sight our own life and the life of other. This reading is in regard of how people should be able to make their own choices or their decision that is convenient to them. It relates the story “Two Kinds” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” because it tells how both individuals in each story were not able to make their own decision.
Lastly, although “two Kinds” and “The yellow wallpaper” are two different stories but the relations that both stories have in command is the impact of the character have on someone else. The pressure on having to leave up to ones expectation, pushes them to their limits causes them to fail to accomplish. Although the person that cared for them wanted the best for them, if they had allowed them to do what they desire the outcome would be more positive. Work Cited
AMY TAN “Two Kinds” Literature: A Portable Anthology Ed Janet E. Gardener, et al. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 382-391. Print.
Callero, Peter L. Myth of individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives. Trans. Rowman. Littlefield Publishing Group: 2009. Print
Charlotte P. Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” Literature: A Portable Anthology ED Janet E. Gardener. Et al. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 76-89. Print
Kerr, Calum A. Literary Context in Short Stories: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Literary Analysis of “The Yellow Wallpaper” By aig123, Oak Lawn, IL
St. Jean, Shawn. “Hanging “The Yellow Wall-Paper”: Feminism And Textual Studies.” Feminist
Studies 28.2 (2002): 397. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Dec. 2015
Stein, Karen F. “Amy Tan.” Critical Survey Of Short Fiction, Second Revised edition (2001): 1-3 Literary Reference Center. Web. 12 Dec. 2015
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Jottedlines.com/literature/critical-analysis-of-two-kinds-by-amy-tan/