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Yet he fails to accept that living with the wallpaper truly bothers his wife—and in fact negatively affects her mental state. John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. The narrator explains her husband’s devotion to his patients.
- Important Quotes Explained
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Yellow Wallpaper,...
- Important Quotes Explained
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Yellow Wallpaper, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's relationship with her husband, John, is marked by patriarchal dominance and lack of understanding. John, a physician, dismisses his wife's mental...
54 quotes from The Yellow Wall-Paper: ‘It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.’
4 lip 2019 · The narrator then tells us that she believes John and Jennie have become ‘affected’ by the wallpaper – that they are losing their minds from being exposed to it. So the narrator begins stripping the yellow wallpaper from the walls, much to the consternation of Jennie.
6 dni temu · The Woman behind the wallpaper gives the title of prisoners not to the narrator’s husband and his sister but to the narrator’s husband and the narrator. The Woman has shown signs of distrusting her authentic self earlier, and in this quotation, she calls out the husband and Jane , not Jennie.
This quotation from early in Gilman’s story establish the crux of the story in one sentence. The narrator’s husband is not only a man – at a time when men had a good deal of control over their wives, including (in many cases) their money and property – but is also a qualified doctor.
