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    Perkins Gilman A satisfying story is made up of various characteristics such as a good setting‚ a well-developed plot‚ a detailed character development‚ an appropriate use of details and conflicts between the characters and the circumstances. Such characteristics enhance depth‚ and create imagery for the readers to emotionally identify with the story. I will specifically focus on the use of details and conflicts between characters through “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Primarily

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    mean. Similarities in stories bring stories together. They show how no matter how different a story may seem to be there can always be similarities found in them. In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen there are a lot of similar things like the point of view‚ internal conflicts‚ and

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes “The Yellow Wallpaper” in such a way that she is nearly begging the readers to see things from her side of thoughts but continuously persuades us that she is wrong in her concerns and that she is slowly becoming senile. We as an audience we are faced with the challenge of deciphering who the lady really is that is trapped inside that yellow wallpaper. Gilman also challenges the audience to determine whether she really is crazy or if her disillusions are simply harmless

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    Student: Zhaolin Li Instructor: Terry Heath English101 Aug 7th 2013 In "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents the narrator‚ being the main character‚ as an ill woman. However‚ she is not ill physically. She is ill in her mind. More than any chemical imbalance that may be present; the narrator’s environment is what causes her to go mad. The environment changes the mind of the narrator. Under the orders of her husband‚ the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the

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    Gilman uses metaphor in The Yellow Wallpaper to comment on the destructive and oppressive social constructions of True Womanhood‚ an ideology present at the time Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The eponymous wallpaper is metaphor for not only the narrator’s state of mental deterioration‚ but of the “pattern of social and economic dependence”1 of women‚ reducing them to household servants. The metaphors created in The Yellow Wallpaper lead to a feminist interpretation as each can be argued to comment

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    women‚ but could not unfold her power because of blockaded in wallpaper. So Jane rips the wallpaper to escape it. In this book‚ it contains many sources of the Gilman’s feminism. Gilman‚ who is the American feminist author‚ puts her mind and ideas into her books by the symbol. In her book‚ “the Yellow Wallpaper‚” Gilman uses the feminism by symbolizing the protagonist‚ Jane‚ and the environment‚ especially the yellow wallpaper.

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    Tennessee; Blakesley‚ Maureen. The Glass Menagerie. Heinemann‚ 1996. McGlinn‚ Jeanne M. Tennessee Williams Women: Illusion and Reality‚ sexuality and Love." Tennessee Williams: A Tribute. Ed. Jac Tharpe. Jackson: UP of Mississippi‚ 1977. 510-24. Gilman‚ Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Orchises Press‚ 1990. Benstock‚ Shari. Feminist issues in literary scholarship. Indiana University Press‚ 1987. Goodman‚ Lizbeth. Literature and gender. Routledge‚ 1996. Faulkner‚ William; Robinette‚ Joseph

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    In comparing the three authors and the literary works of women authors‚ Kate Chopin (1850 -1904)‚ "The Awakening"‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s (1860-1935)‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ and Edith Wharton ’s (1862-1937) "Souls Belated"‚ many common social issues related to women are brought to light‚ and though subtly pointed out are an outcry against the conventions of the time. In these three stories‚ which were written between 1899 and 1913‚ the era was a time in which it seems‚ women had finally awaken

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Literary Analysis The short story by Charlotte Gilman about a woman who has become mentally ill covers many controversial topics that are still very prevalent today. The large issues that are covered are shown by the imagery throughout the story from the woman’s thoughts‚ the interactions with the characters‚ and the social normalcies at the time. A few times in the story‚ the speaker uses deep imagery to portray her extreme mental illness and obsessions with the patterned

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    Extreme Anxiety The most interesting short stories that caught my undivided attention were: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ and “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler. These stories were both fascinating and intriguing in the sense that they made me feel like if I was the actual character. You could feel the pain and anguish the characters felt‚ even the desperation. It got to a point that I felt pity for the protagonist whom in both stories where narrating

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