Theme Of Jane And Mrs Mallard

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For jane and Mrs. Mallard was different, they had more problems than just having to worry about cooking or cleaning. It caused them death and phycological issues. How far can a man go with his actions so that someone would go crazy or die with a heart attack? We’ll find out right now how gender roles can cause the destruction of a character. Mrs. Mallard was considered a sensible woman with a weak heart, everybody thinks that she is not strong enough and therefore her family was worried about how they were going to give her the bad news about her husband. “Mr. Mallard is dead”, anyone would imagine a horrible reaction, lots of tears and screaming. But when she heard this, her reaction was different. Louise was feeling the freedom she’s been …show more content…

Mallard is now in her room; she is looking at the window to a beautiful day in spring thinking: “I’m free”. This is symbolic of the “new Louise” a free and individual human being. Even the author calls her “Louise” when se is alone; this represents that in society she’s “Mrs. Mallard” but when she is upstairs she’s just Louise and she loves it. Mr. Mallard walks in his house alive and with no problems at all. Mrs. Millard looks at him and dies immediately with a heart attack. The doctors name it as “the joy that kills”; everyone thought that she died because of the excitement of knowing her husband was alive. The truth is that she dies because she cannot live like the “wife” …show more content…

Gilman uses the rest cure to demonstrate how men perceive women as weak, sensitive, and needing of protection. Time passes by and Jane is not getting any better, her diary is starting to look like if someone completely insane is writing it. She is so obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room and starts imagining people, and she thinks that this people are going to steal the yellow wallpaper from her. These images represent constraints imposed upon women at that time. Suddenly she starts seeing some woman and says that she can never catch her. The truth was that she was doing circles and it was her reflection in the windows of her room. Jane gets worse in time. Almost at the end of the story her husband realizes that all he did was bad for her and that he should’ve listen when she said this was not the

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