FIghting Against Society: Historical and Social Connections

     The connections in “The Yellow Wallpaper” can be very vague, but when you really analyze the writing they become very clear.  Throughout the short story, Gilman makes many hints at the way Jane was treated by her husband and other men.  Back in this time that this was written, women were seen by society as weak and that they belonged in the house all day long. And Gilman herself was also a women’s rights activist so it would make sense that she would write about trying to stop it. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is very much like a fight against women being stepped on by society.  “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!” (pg.11), is almost like saying that Jane was done being downgraded and she was stepping over him to show that she was just as strong.  Therefore, “The Yellow Wallpaper” connects to the women in the 1800’s trying to gain their rights. 


http://evolutionofwomenscitizenship.weebly.com/1800s-womens-movement-issues.html- this site helped me understand women's rights in the 1800's

http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/19thcentury/womenandequality/- this site talked about women and their equality

 

 

Historical and Social Connections: connections that you can make with the short story that have to do with history or society