In today's class we read "The Yellow Wallpaper". After we were done reading the first class, the first thing that came to my mind about this short story was that the woman was "crazy".
Gilman writes from a Feminist point of view, in which the woman was oppressed by her husband (by not letting her write etc.). Even though the husband loves his wife, he does not treat her equal to men and is not enough concerned about her. When the wife tries to talk to him about her problems, for example when the wife wants to pick another bedroom, he does not really care about his wife's opinion and just says that there are no reasons for her appeal.
"The narrator's suggestions about her recuperation (that she should work instead of rest, that she should engage with society instead of remaining isolated, that she should attempt to be a mother instead of being separated entirely from her child, et cetera) are dismissed out of hand using language' that basically calls her "crazy" and "out of her mind".
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