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  • Essay / Similarities and differences between The Yellow...

    She shares a similar experience to Louise Mallard, but in a different situation and ending. The character also suffers from some sort of mental disorder that her husband, who also happens to be her doctor, refers to as a "temporary nervous breakdown." She spends the summer with her husband so that her condition improves. Her husband John also prescribed the “rest-cure” treatment for her own good. She is confined to bed in an old nursery room with yellow wallpaper. This is where the narrator will begin to feel the changes as she reveals the “text” hidden in the yellow wallpaper. She starts by explaining every detail she doesn't like about the wallpaper and also makes a comparison to how she understands why children never liked a room like this. First, she didn't like the house, second, she didn't like the room that was chosen for her, and finally, she wasn't able to do the activities she enjoyed. She would try to refrain from saying anything to her husband because, as he is a doctor, he wins every debate. These are simple facts that we know will transform her from bad to worse. She suffers from some sort of mental disorder and is placed in a place where she doesn't feel comfortable. "There are things in this diary that no one knows but me, and that no one ever will know.”