Landfill By Gilman Analysis

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"Landfill" is based on what happened to Hector Jr. The story is about a nineteen - year- old college freshman boy who studied at Michigan State University in Grand Rapids. He wants to be accepted by others, for that, he has faced humiliation, ragging by his friends. He is living a struggling life where he is always trying hard to mix well with the other students. It is getting difficult for him to cope well with the fraternity he joined. He is bullied by his friends and on the same night of March25, while he is heavily intoxicated, he falls down in a trash chute and found dead in his fraternity house. A few weeks later, his body is discovered at the Tioga County landfill (Oates). Drinking is one of the causes people find of Hector to …show more content…

Moreover, the depressed mind can constantly fill with evil thoughts anything that hurts. As in Gilman, “ Yellow Wallpaper , the narrator, to make herself comfortable, she begins to get comfort and peace by watching the mysterious yellow wallpaper. She used to look at the wallpaper most of the times. Her mental problem makes her lonely and parted away from the family. “My darling, “said he, ‘I beg of you, for my sake and for our child’s sake, as well as for own, that you will never for one instant let that idea enter your mind! There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?”. The narrator loves her husband, she knows her family is getting disturbed because of their illness. John, the narrator’s husband is trying to help her wife to cure the disease but she is getting more ill . Likewise, the problem is John wants her wife to be in his control. He is maintaining the relation his wife as a doctor and husband. He is unable to understand his wife and request her to take care of herself for their family, she needs to rid of their problem and stop doing this stupid thing. She needs to trust her husband but the narrator feels John wants to keep her in restrictions. On the other side, in Oats,” Landfill, Hector Jr, shows as a hopeless who …show more content…

She is losing her identity because of deep connection with the wallpaper. The narrator is not able to meet the standards or expectations people need to see in her. John, the narrator husband feels that his wife does not want to live the way he wants. She thinks her husband pushes away her creativity and writing skills. "The Yellow Wallpaper" shows the narrator wants to run away from the expectations and live in their own imaginative world which shows she is getting a lack of individualism and loses her own identity and taking the shadowed expressive identity and wants to get the shadow to be free. However, in Oats, “Landfill”, greedy to be accepted by others make Hector Jr. depressed. His mother blames her husband for coercing Hector to get into engineering. The difficult courses make him stressed adding on no one talk to him. He feels lonely, away from their family for the first time in his life. Hector shares a room with two other boys- Reb and Steve, never go out with him and never wants to be friendly with Hector Jr. “none of his Southfield High friends were at Grand Rapids - a town where his university locates. His classes were too large; his professors scarcely knew him” (616). Hector’s parents feel that he is lonely at the university .Hector’s high school friends do not accompany him for the university studies, classes are large as compared to high school classes , and nobody

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