The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Gilman, Charlotte P. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” 1892. Web.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a unnamed narrator (often identified as Jane) who suffers from depression following the birth of her baby. Her husband misdiagnoses her with hysteria and is isolated from everyone but her husband and nurse. She is not allowed to write though it makes her feel better. Her condition quickly deteriorates and she starts to see a woman inside her yellow wallpaper. She thinks the woman is struggling to break free and tears down the wallpaper in order to free the woman. Her husband comes to take her home, but faints when he realizes that she has gone mad. The powerful pattern in the wallpaper resembles bars that confine the narrator in her world of loneliness, hallucination, and insanity. This relates to “The Raven” how both narrators slowly grow a sense of grief and insanity. The point of this short story is to not drive people crazy but to save people from going crazy.
Green, John. Turtles All the Way Down. Penguin, 2018.
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green is novel about a teenage girl going through the hardships of high school. Although her hardships can be different from the other individuals at her school. Her name is Aza and she has severe anxiety. The point of writing this novel is for others with similar issues to find comfort that they are not alone. This novel relates to the other readings chosen because it shows the raw emotion of individuals. It is written in a confusing tone because Green goes to many different ways to get to his point.
Miller, Arthur, and Gerald Clifford Weales. Death of a Salesman. Penguin Books, 1996.
The play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is about a family with a traveling salesman as a dad and husband. Willy, the main character, dad, and husband, spends most of his time away from his family and on the road in a car on business ventures. While on these trips his family, wife and two sons, don’t express much emotion about wishing he wasn’t travelling, however they do rejoice slightly when ever he returns from his trips. When Willy travels he tends to drink his troubles away which results