Continuing our conversation on Tuesday about women being "sick", Jeff mentioned the story of The Yellow Wall Paper. It just so happened that the next day in my Women Writers class we were reading that story and there were several connections between the articles we had to read for class as The Yellow Wall Paper. In the story a girl is made to stay in an old nursery all day just being able to rest. Her husband treated her like a child. Telling her that he knew what was best for her, calling her "little goose" and not taking her opinion into consideration. Also one could say that simply because she was put into an old nursery exemplified the child doctor relationship.
When looking at the wallpaper, the women in the story kept seeing women being trapped within the pattern. I saw this as mirroring the way women were trapped in the pattern of being the women within society. They have their duties to carry out on a daily basis. Men think that this is how it should be and if something isn't quite right they isolate the women from everything, letting there minds rest when in reality this really just makes everything worse. If a women struggles to get out of the pattern then she is bound to loose her head. Just like the women in the story, in the end she gets pushed over the edge into insanity.
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