“A women is always a fickle, unstable thing.” Vergil, Eclogues I compared it with “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. When I read this quote I immediately compared it with The Narrator the wife of John the physician. I felt the narrator was always at state changing frequently she is always likely to her emotions and affections. The narrator’s husband John restricts her from several activities and she can be very imaginative also unstable at times. In order for her to stay sane from her husband she kept a journal writing down her thoughts. John’s sister Jennie acts as housekeeper but she is also keeping a watchful eye on John’s wife. She does admit that she is “sick” in the beginning she says “You see he does not believe I am sick! if a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression and what can one do?” (Gilman) She doesn’t argue with husband because she knows John is physician and he knows what he’s talking about. John …show more content…
The narrator is alone most of the time and says that she has become almost fond of the wallpaper and that attempting to figure out its pattern for example she says “I lie her on this great immovable bed, it is nailed down, I believe and follow’s that pattern about the hour it is as good ad gymnastics I assure you I start we’ll say, at the bottom, down the corner over there it has not been touched and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow the pointless pattern to sort some conclusion.” (Gilman) As her obsession grows, the pattern of the wallpaper becomes clearer. It begins to resemble a woman trapped by bars trying to escape the wallpaper. In my opinion, the wallpaper represents her feeling trapped clearly by her