When we look at the stories “The Prison”, “The Son’s Veto”, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” we can conclude that these stories all follow the same theme: Confinement. But when we look closer, we can see that each story portrays confinement in different ways. Looking back at the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charolette Perkins Gilman, we can see that the protagonist is confined in more ways than one. We can see that at the beginning of the story, it’s thrown right at us that she is physically confined in a bedroom in the back of her home due to being put on “the rest of the cure” for her postpartum depression. But as we read deeper into the story and analyze it further, we can see that the woman is confined in her mind. We read that her …show more content…
Just by reading the title “The Prison” we know that the main character is being held somewhere, somehow. As we look into the first part of the story, we can see how the main character (Tommy) is physically confined when it comes to his environment. To start, he came back to his hometown and was put into marriage with his wife, Rosa. Those pieces are told when the reader reads “There was his father. making an honest living.” We can also see that he is physically confined when the author tells us that he is trapped in his candy shop every day from eight in the morning until about midnight except for Tuesdays and the thirty minutes he gives himself to get some sleep. As we continue reading the story, we can connect the pieces that he is mentally confined from his actions in the past that are taunting him and that came back because of a little girl who was stealing from his shop. When we read this we can see that he never actually yells or punishes the girl because he doesn’t want what happened to him, to happen to her. In the story, it states “He found himself thinking about the way his life turned out, and then about this girl.” We also read that Tommy got teary-eyed at these thoughts. At the end of the story, we can see that all of these thoughts that he kept confined in his mind, didn’t help him come up with a way to stop her from stealing, but in turn, was helping her get away with stealing where at the end she “thrust her red tongue at him” basically saying ‘haha I got away with