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This 8 page paper compares and contrasts the stories “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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subtle and beautifully crafted. This paper examines two stories that fit the latter definition: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell.
It compares the two with regard to how the authors use themes and metaphors to develop their characters. Discussion "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the story of a womans descent into
madness. The unnamed narrator is suffering from a nervous ailment of some sort; since she has a new baby it could be postpartum depression, but the illness is never specifically
identified. Her husband John is a doctor, and he insists that he knows whats best for her, and prescribes a "rest cure," in which she is supposed to relax and
sleep as much as possible and let others do everything for her (Gilman). This turns out to be the worst possible advice he could have given her, for she begins
to hallucinate about the wallpaper in the bedroom of their vacation home: she thinks the patterns move, and finally discerns a figure behind the grotesque design and understands its a
woman, trying to get out (Gilman). Finally, the narrator pulls the paper off the wall, happy in the knowledge that she has freed both the other woman and herself. She
tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she has won: "Ive got out at last," said I, "in spite of
you and Jane. And Ive pulled off most of the paper, so you cant put me back!" (Gilman, 1899). The wallpaper, of course, is society and the restrictions it places
on women, and the narrator is a woman who has started to rebel against them. Societys ideas of what is appropriate for a woman are all embodied in her husband
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