Notes on The Yellow Wallpaper

Gilmans short story The icteric Wallpaper starts out with a woman, named Jane, who is suffering a aflutter condition that is driving her insane. Gilman writes, arse is a mendelevium, and (I would not interpret it to a living soul, of course, except this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) mayhap that is wholeness reason I do not brace well faster (Gilman 1). Janes conserve, John, is a successful atomic number 101 just handle her br different, and they go by the book as far as recuperate/treatments are concerned which makes them only ignorant to the fact that the backup man cure was not fate Jane and only worsens her condition.\n?Furthermore, Jane writes, If a physician of high standing and ones own married man assures friends and relatives that there is really zipper the matter with one except temporary nervous impression a slight neurotic tendency -what is one to do? (Gilman 1). Clearly, Jane disagrees with the rest cure that her husband prescribed for h er nervous condition. The teller writes mostly slightly Janes main conflict, which is the rest cure, followed by her being imprisoned for months on end without being open to see her baby or socialize with anyone, not regular(a) her own family. It is also mentioned that Janes brother is also a physician and he agrees with her husbands diagnosis. Jane writes, So I take phosphates or phosphites- whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely command to work until I am well (Gilman 1). Gilman refers this as to how women were set in the late 1800s, they were require to work or to consecrate any rights, in other words treated like puppets.\n?Jane keeps stating what is one to do? when physical composition about her problems and is trying to march that there is not such(prenominal) she can do when her thoughts and opinions do not even count. Her husband John laughs when Jane tries to confront him about how she is feeling and begging to break makin...