... ;of course, but one expects that" (Gilman 473). Everyone else either doubts her mind, writings, or opinions on how to get better. For example, Jane's brother, "is also a physician, and also of high standing" (Gilman 473), and he agrees and says the same thing as John on using ... , but loved by her husband. Although they are one and the same, John chose to treat her as a wife and not a patient. Unfortunately for Jane, the rest cure was a widely accepted prescription that physicians (including John) used in the nineteenth century. If John would have just acted as a physician and ... choose...

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... breakdown beginning something as mine did, and treated as Dr. S. Weir Mitchell treated me with what I considered the inevitable result, progressive insanity" (Gilman 102). Due to her poor health, Jane listens to the doctor's advice and redirects the energy she formerly spent on worries to " journeys, and air, and exercise- (153). She continuously focuses her attention on the surrounding environment ... her health state; they maintain these appearances artificially, by not taking her real sickness into consideration. Other pieces of evidence back up the same idea of artificial environmen...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... sees to everything now" and the narrator seems to almost take this for granted when she says, " OF COURSE I didn't do a thing". Jane has made herself completely reliant on John. Her dependence is made very evident judging by the number of times she says his name. It is as ... abruptly breaks off and goes to rest, a kind of behaviour familiar in children. However this behaviour could be attributed to John's babying of Jane. John coddles Jane, calling her "his darling", and as she mentioned, "gathered me up in his arms" just as an adult would a child. This ... she has to use her "will a...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... sees to everything now" and the narrator seems to almost take this for granted when she says, " OF COURSE I didn't do a thing". Jane has made herself completely reliant on John. Her dependence is made very evident judging by the number of times she says his name. It is as ... abruptly breaks off and goes to rest, a kind of behaviour familiar in children. However this behaviour could be attributed to John's babying of Jane. John coddles Jane, calling her "his darling", and as she mentioned, "gathered me up in his arms" just as an adult would a child. This ... she has to use her "will a...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to all manner of excited fancies." John is away most of the time during the day, and sometimes overnight when his medical "cases are serious," so it is his sister Jane who attends to the narrator and, as if policing her, keeps an eye on her activities and progress which she then reports to the doctor. "I must not let her find ... me writing," says the narrator. "I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!" Setting the example of the conventional woman of her time, Jane, herself, the narrator says, "Is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better ...

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... at the start of this story. No longer oppressed by John, she says to him, "out at last in spite of you and Jane I've pulled off most of the wallpaper, so you cant put me back "(19). Jane, who the narrator is interpreted to be, is no longer the woman who is dictated by the demands of her husband, and instead ... ...

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... finally breaks free. We experience a sense of relief along side the character towards the end of the story, "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (Gilman) Gilman expresses the importance of freedom in the end of her works emphasizing the ... ...

• Word Count: 1227
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate