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Yellow Wall Paper (Nursery (Initially the room is describes as a playroom…
Yellow Wall Paper
Nursery
Initially the room is describes as a playroom for rowdy children. Why would this have bars and things on the wall??? Sounds more like a prison.
Why would children scratch the wallpaper and bed posts? Have people been held here? At the end she does both of these when tearing down the wallpaper.
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He treats her like a child, the nursery is where children play and where she is confined.
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Patriarchy/John
Her thoughts/ideas are constantly dismissed. She never questions this as if is expected. At the time this was normal?
'John is practical in the extreme' He scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures -
He likes tangible things
He treats her like a fragile thing. Calls her 'little girl' 'bless her little heart'. Is this because she is a 'fragile' female? Is this why her treatment is isolation and rest?
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Madness
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The woman in the wallpaper seems to mirror the narrator. Both are trying to break out. Does she feel trapped by her illness or by society?