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“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a classic short story penned down by celebrated American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was first published in The New England Magazine in January 1892. The story is considered to be one of the most important pieces of writing in the English feminist literature and highlights an important issue in the attitude of people towards the mental and physical health of the females (Clift).
The story revolves around a woman in her middle age who is going through a rough patch of her life. She is suffering from a “temporary nervous depression” and her husband tries to calm her down by bringing her to a colonial mansion so that she can have a good time and required rest away from the hustle and bustle of the city (Gilman). Jane, the main female lead of the story is recommended to have best rest for some time by her husband, John, who is also a physician.
Although, John seems to be a very caring and understanding husband as he takes good care of her wife, takes her away to a calm place away from the noise and pollution of the city and provides her the opportunity to relax and rest as much as she can, still some scholars argue that John is the basic reason behind Jane’s condition.
In fact, Jane is a person who yearns freedom, she wants to express her feeling and emotions. She is a person who wants to let her thinking flow out, but John, being a typical male does not allow her to do so. He completely understands the physical needs of her wife and tries to keep her as comfortable as he can but he does not understand her emotional and psychological needs, which needs to be understood on the first priority (Qasim).
Works Cited
Clift, Elayne, ed. Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper. Routledge, 2014.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The yellow wallpaper and other writings. Gibbs Smith, 2019.
Qasim, Naheed, et al. "Women's Liberation: The Effects of Patriarchal Oppression on Women's Mind." International Journal of Asian Social Science 5.7 (2015): 382-393.
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