Quote:
“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction. I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he tales all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more” (Perkins 809)
Summary:
This quote from The Yellow Wall-Paper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman is at the beginning of the story, when the main character arrives to the resting house, which is a mental institution, and she is describing how “well” her husband takes care of her.
Response:
This is the beginning of the story and from the beginning I got the right idea about the husband. He might seem as an overprotecting husband who doesn’t want to leave her alone for the fear of what she might do or because he’s worried about her. But I think he is more worried about things she might do that would cause a bad impression to other people, hence, hurt his reputation, this is why he brought her to the mental institution. But of course she doesn’t know about it, she thinks they are taking a holiday, but the reason her husband is making her take pills every hour, and doesn’t let her “stir without special direction” shows that he wants to have total control over her.
At this point she seems like a very gullible and submissive person, she talks with so calmly that is almost sarcastic. I feel her tone of voice and the words she uses show her mental state, she totally under the spell of her husband, she thinks all he does for her is for love and with no other motive. But if I imagine Charlotte Perkins saying that I would think, they are nothing more than a joke. She is mocking the love the husband has for the main character, and she is using this sarcastic language to show how submissive and how passive a woman can sound under the total control of a husband.
It is really interesting how she says that she feels “ungrateful not to value it more”, which means she is not valuing her husband’s care because she is still sick even with all the care her husband gives her. In other words, she shouldn’t be sick because the husband takes care of her. This means the wife should be like a little child with no mind of her own and be fine as long as the husband is there to take care of her.
I think Charlotte has made a clear point with this words, about the role men and women play in a marriage.
“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction. I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he tales all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more” (Perkins 809)
Summary:
This quote from The Yellow Wall-Paper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman is at the beginning of the story, when the main character arrives to the resting house, which is a mental institution, and she is describing how “well” her husband takes care of her.
Response:
This is the beginning of the story and from the beginning I got the right idea about the husband. He might seem as an overprotecting husband who doesn’t want to leave her alone for the fear of what she might do or because he’s worried about her. But I think he is more worried about things she might do that would cause a bad impression to other people, hence, hurt his reputation, this is why he brought her to the mental institution. But of course she doesn’t know about it, she thinks they are taking a holiday, but the reason her husband is making her take pills every hour, and doesn’t let her “stir without special direction” shows that he wants to have total control over her.
At this point she seems like a very gullible and submissive person, she talks with so calmly that is almost sarcastic. I feel her tone of voice and the words she uses show her mental state, she totally under the spell of her husband, she thinks all he does for her is for love and with no other motive. But if I imagine Charlotte Perkins saying that I would think, they are nothing more than a joke. She is mocking the love the husband has for the main character, and she is using this sarcastic language to show how submissive and how passive a woman can sound under the total control of a husband.
It is really interesting how she says that she feels “ungrateful not to value it more”, which means she is not valuing her husband’s care because she is still sick even with all the care her husband gives her. In other words, she shouldn’t be sick because the husband takes care of her. This means the wife should be like a little child with no mind of her own and be fine as long as the husband is there to take care of her.
I think Charlotte has made a clear point with this words, about the role men and women play in a marriage.
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