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Setting as described by Robert DiYannis is when "Writers describe the world they know, its sights, and sounds, its colors, textures, and accents."(DiYannis p.43) "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman can be broken down into two major social points. First as a means to save women from rest cure. This was a method used in the early 1900's for the treating the mental ill. The rest cure method called for the complete seclusion of a patient. They felt that if a patient was secluded the stimulus that causes the mental illness would no longer be present and the women would be cured. The second major point is "as an indictment of a social structure which deters women's intellectual, psychological, and creative growth in an effort to keep women childlike and submissive."(Hudock p.2583) The room in which the narrator is confined, the personification of the wallpaper in relation to her madness, and the women in the wallpaper all contribute to the theme of dealing w! The room represents the confinement of her physically. The room has bars on the windows and a gate that locks. She describes the room as "It was a nursery first, and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge, for the w
Noted psychologists detailed theories that "proved" women's developmental immaturity, low cognitive skills, and emotional instability. The rings and things on the wall were most likely there for holding a patient against the wall for further confinement. indows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things on the walls. The woman in the wallpaper represents the oppression of women in the early 1900's. But nobody could climb through that pattern-it strangles so;"(Gilman p. "I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times looking at the paper! And Jennie too. Finally, she can not handle the wallpaper anymore. 159) As her madness pr!ogresses she becomes so involved with the wallpaper that she gets the yellow on her clothes and herself. 155) Then as her madness progresses, the wallpaper becomes more confining. The bars on the windows were there so that the patient would not jump out it. In the beginning of the story, the narrator sees the wallpaper as just ugly wallpaper. This is a physical manifestation of her revealing in her madness.
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