YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour and the Female Characters they Include
Essays 151 - 180
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
so much time to be bored. Jewett writes: "Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it" (759). Sylvia wa...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...
on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on ...
and claims to be overtired, although she seems to be able to write some thousand words at a stretch. In this first section she als...
In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...
call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...
up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...
The Bronte and Gilman writings are discussed. The significance of haunting in each is the focus of attention. This eight page pa...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...