This article was very helpful in making me understand more about the story that I had missed in reading it. Not until now did I find out the Jane had just given birth to her son and the initial sickness was provoked through post partum depression. This information helps me to see what lead up to the story and also her being sick and feeling depressed. I did find this article a bit dry and boring but it had a lot of good insight on Jane and John. Jane whose name was not revealed until the very end is named a very non-descriptive name. I agree with this and feel as though we were not supposed to put an basis or demographic on who this Jane really was. John being her doctor and husband might have been too close to the situation to realize her condition and I found it interesting that in the article the writer states that after a while John starts diagnosing and controlling the very things that women are, imaginative and describes it as not being in self control. That is a point I had not really grasped until reading this article.
The article also goes on to talk about Jane's psychotic tendencies and it also compared her character to the Lancan studies of psycho-analysis, which I found somewhat interesting but also a bit difficult to comprehend. Overall, I agree with the criticism article and I am glad I was able to get further insight on Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper".
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