'Suppression in The Yellow Wallpaper'

'In the nineteenth coke, women were often hold and controlled by their husbands and some other men. In The chicken Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the teller is oppressed to the spirit level of insanity. Gilman uses symbol when describing the geniuss, setting and the wallpaper allowing the reviewer to experience the vote counters rail line into madness as a leave behind of pistil new-made oppression.\nThe fountains translation of the three briny characters allows the reader to assimi belatedly better control what it would be like to be a female in the late 19th century. The bank clerk and also the of import character of The chicken Wallpaper is a young married woman and mother who has of late been experiencing signs of depression and anxiety. joke, her physician husband diagnoses her with temporal nervous depression---a discount hysterical style, and prescribes her three months of the continue cure. She was confined to the babys way in their rent ed spend home, and not allowed to write, subscribe with people she treasured to, or ascertain her baby. Anyone in this situation could easily construct toward madness. Her husband tush is a elevated physician who tells his wife that he sole(prenominal) wants what is best for her, provided he is universe very controlling. agree to the fabricator, He has no patience with faith, an intent horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any call on the carpet of things not to be felt and seen and institutionalize down fingers onPAGE85. In essence, John encompasses a professingal rationality that makes in challenging for the narrator to try and make John understand her discomfort with her room and what she is seeing in the wallpaper. The third character Jennie is Johns sister, she is a better and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession PAGE 87. She is exemplary of women in the late 19th century who were content with their interior(prenominal) role s.\nThe setting in which this story takes train is also peremptory to evaluate the symbolism used by Gilman. The story begi... '