Mrs. Jarman
English III
8 May 2015
I have decided that "The Yellow Wallpaper" left an influence on me. The short story left me wondering what women back then went through. It must have been horrible to sit in a room all day long with no one to talk to, slowly losing your mind. No one wants that. It also made me realize how far back the feminist movement has gone. I mean, sure it is in different forms, but it all has the same purpose.
While reading this, I felt devastation towards the narrator because she was forced into isolation by her husband, John, as a form of remedy. What I don't understand is how people back then thought isolating someone would cure them of insanity. Wouldn't it just make them more anxious? And the fact is that the narrator was forced by her husband to live there. Women didn't have the right to think for themselves, it seems. Men had all the say so.
Also, I connected this to the feminist movement today and the one in the early 1900s. Women throughout the ages have fought for equal liberties as men. We want same pay, same say, and same rights. Back then, the movement was more discreet because women didn't have any say at all, no matter what the situation. Women were
