The Yellow Wallpaper Isolation Analysis

The Mentality of Women in Isolation
Gender norms have been tested throughout the entirety of time, as both men and women continuously never see eye to eye with each other on different beliefs. The unwillingness to be seen as equal creates a vendetta of unfairness towards the female gender. This can lead to the feeling of isolation, and later lead to insanity, when women feel invisible. In the stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Rose for Emily”, Charlotte Perkins Stenson and William Faulkner demonstrate The insanity that one can go through in their head through feelings of being trapped and isolated, Mental Illness, and the stereotype of gender roles in society.
The first main point to compare the two short stories is the isolation felt by

She begins to go insane, and sees figures in the walls, further leading her to tear off all of the wallpaper with her teeth. In the article “Marking her territory: feline behavior in "The Yellow Wall-Paper”, written by Catherine J. Golden, she explains the cat-like predator mindset that takes over Jane, as she begins to adapt to animalistic tendencies while trapped inside the room. The isolation she feels from being trapped gives her the independence aspect of a feline, as well as the aggression, such as the scratching and biting of the objects inside the metaphorical cage. Catherine Golden states that “ideas about the cat intensifies the narrator's rejection of John and patriarchy, even as she embraces the physical space of her confinement.” (Golden 4), Which causes the audience to picture Jane as some sort of cat, which determines why she feels the confinement in the room. The trajectory of John throughout the story is that of him being controlling, and not understanding of what Jane is feeling. The story relays that “But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself-before him”(Stetson

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Jane from the beginning is controlled by her husband, as he is a doctor, and back then, it was society's norm to trust whoever was a doctor. The article “Understanding The Yellow Wallpaper: Summary and Analysis”, written by Carrie Cabral, talks about the feminism aspect of the story, and how that affects Jane's insanity, as her mind gets more out of touch with the real world. She states that “work that asks difficult questions about the role of women, particularly regarding their mental health and right to autonomy and self-identity.” (Cabral 2). This quote brings up the question of if Jane had the right to make the decisions she did, because on one hand, she did lock herself in the room, but she also was coerced into believing what her husband told her. In the short story, Jane states that “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.”(Stetson 648). Jane's husband is further proving his controlling nature, as he “directs” Jane's behaviors, and doesn't let her really make her own decisions without his input. The quote “And John is so queer now, that I don't want to irritate him.”(Stetson 654) relays the message that in the area that they lived in, it was normal for the woman to be inferior to the man, and almost have a skittish attitude towards them ,as they were worried what would happen if they stood up for