... room. Her fixation and mind are able to convince her that there are people hidden behind this wallpaper. She hides her desire to write or do anything creative because as her husband claims, it would worsen her case. Correspondingly, the story portrays a married woman's plea to be allowed to do things which ... and is unable to be open about how she really feels. Instead, she is quiet and sneaky with her attempts to do anything which is slightly creative or expressive. Gilman successfully conveys the idea of communication not existing between this couple. Not only is the narrator dismissi...

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... , and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!" (611). Jennie does not want the narrator to express herself through her writing, which is a way to control her thoughts. Through the example of Jennie, the reader gets a sense of the creative confinement that society puts on women during this time. Although the narrator is ... you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide- plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. (609) This shows that she has a creative...

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... activities that take place in a mental institution. Sure, there is a lot of medicine being prescribed, and numerous treatments; however, it is often seen that the use of art therapy or writing therapy is very beneficial to patients with anxiety and depression disorders (such as postpartum depression/OCD). The speaker has been made to feel as if she should not write or ... express her feelings in this way. Her husband believes that her writing is unhealthy, and that she should not give in to her "foolish fancies ". On page 464, she even states, "Sometimes I think that if I were only well...

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... freedom. As this for some would be portrayed as a thriller, it is clearly a standpoint on the limits and holds women faced when not in the norm, and finding herself in a creative way. Her husband, John, being quite the example of a dominating spouse that holds control and power when it comes to his wife is one of the reasons why this would ... her, even though John is physically there, he isn't in spirit or in an affectionate way. So then by John not being there she found herself not being alone by writing and expressing her thoughts and ideas. But thus being locked up she does get exha...

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... believes her to be suffering from a nervous condition. They rent a mansion for the narrator's well-being and she is kept in almost total isolation without any form of creative out lit, not even writing. John is a physician and prescribes almost constant rest and hourly tonics. The narrator tries to write in secret because she believes that it would help her, but having ... ...

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... of oppression on women. The main character is suffering from mental depression because of the shackles her husband puts on her with his practical ideas of recovery. The wife is a creative spirit with her own ideas and thoughts, which she tries on numerous occasions to express to the husband only for him to view the ideas as insignificant and reply "blessed ... to do?" shows the power of men and her inability to express her feelings of recovery to her husband. The narrator's journal entries are prohibited. The husband disapproves of her writing because he feels it is her creativity of th...

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... . Women of the 18th and 19th Century were supposed to be masters of their domain and happy to be so. But was it a domain or a prison? This woman is intelligent, creative and in control more than one might think. There is a sense that she is preparing, working towards something. Perhaps one might say she is steadily working toward insanity. Looking deeper ... and the furniture are in equal part decorative objects which fill the space. The world Gilman's woman has created consists of the bedroom she spends much of her time in- writing down her forbidden thoughts, peering out of the window ...

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• Grade Level: High School