Thanks Scott for all your teaching fall and winter quarter. I enjoyed the readings, learned a lot, and found a new passion for American Lit. Thank you,
Nika
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
journal 42
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/19/08
London
Quote: “He tried to poke them together again, but in spite of the tenderness of the effort, his shivering got away with him, and the twigs were hopelessly scattered. Each twig gushed a puff of smoke and went out.”
Summary: He finally had a fire burning with his last matches but a piece of moss had fallen on his flame and disrupted it. He tried desperately to fix nature’s attempt at putting his fire out but he failed.
Response: I’ve always really enjoyed this story and it’s one that I like to read over again because I always pick up something new. The title has always intrigued me because it’s always fun to figure out all the different things it could mean. Fire was something that had always belonged to nature but never to humans. Even in Greek mythology, the Gods become angry with Dionysus, the Greek God who gives fire to the humans. And always in cartoons you see the cave men who try endlessly to make fire by rubbing stone and twig together. In this story about man vs. nature, man fails in using everything given to him by his human brain and loses his battle against nature. He cannot build a fire for the life of him, literally, but originally, man was never supposed to be able to possess fire anyway. London is saying that we as humans have lost touch with nature and have become arrogant. If the man took his own advice and the advice from others, and became closer with nature he would have survived.
3/19/08
London
Quote: “He tried to poke them together again, but in spite of the tenderness of the effort, his shivering got away with him, and the twigs were hopelessly scattered. Each twig gushed a puff of smoke and went out.”
Summary: He finally had a fire burning with his last matches but a piece of moss had fallen on his flame and disrupted it. He tried desperately to fix nature’s attempt at putting his fire out but he failed.
Response: I’ve always really enjoyed this story and it’s one that I like to read over again because I always pick up something new. The title has always intrigued me because it’s always fun to figure out all the different things it could mean. Fire was something that had always belonged to nature but never to humans. Even in Greek mythology, the Gods become angry with Dionysus, the Greek God who gives fire to the humans. And always in cartoons you see the cave men who try endlessly to make fire by rubbing stone and twig together. In this story about man vs. nature, man fails in using everything given to him by his human brain and loses his battle against nature. He cannot build a fire for the life of him, literally, but originally, man was never supposed to be able to possess fire anyway. London is saying that we as humans have lost touch with nature and have become arrogant. If the man took his own advice and the advice from others, and became closer with nature he would have survived.
journal 41
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/19/08
London
Quote: “The old-timer at Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner.
Summary: The man’s hands had pretty much frozen over and it was difficult for him to get a match so he uses his mouth and teeth. At this predicament, he realizes he was ignorant in traveling alone in such cold weather.
Response: I can’t help but think how stubborn this man is. How many times had he been warned and how much common sense did he have and choose to ignore. He knew too well not to take this trip, especially alone, but no, he’s too much of a man to back down. It’s interesting that in Norris’s story it was frustrating that the women were being stereotypical competitive, weak women and now the man in this story is being a stereotypical rough, tough, can’t ask for help man. I said in a previous journal about Crane’s Open Boat that I thought the characters were doomed because nature was against them but they lived however, To Build a Fire is more directly about man vs. nature and nature does win. It’s freezing out, the ice and snow are against him, even the twigs from the trees won’t give him the benefit of fire, It’s obvious he won’t make it. The culminating point of the story is when he tries to kill his dog but he can’t because he’s so cold. He has turned against the dog, perhaps the only thing that connected him to nature, and now he has nothing on his side. At least he does dose off into the most comfortable and satisfying sleep.
3/19/08
London
Quote: “The old-timer at Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner.
Summary: The man’s hands had pretty much frozen over and it was difficult for him to get a match so he uses his mouth and teeth. At this predicament, he realizes he was ignorant in traveling alone in such cold weather.
Response: I can’t help but think how stubborn this man is. How many times had he been warned and how much common sense did he have and choose to ignore. He knew too well not to take this trip, especially alone, but no, he’s too much of a man to back down. It’s interesting that in Norris’s story it was frustrating that the women were being stereotypical competitive, weak women and now the man in this story is being a stereotypical rough, tough, can’t ask for help man. I said in a previous journal about Crane’s Open Boat that I thought the characters were doomed because nature was against them but they lived however, To Build a Fire is more directly about man vs. nature and nature does win. It’s freezing out, the ice and snow are against him, even the twigs from the trees won’t give him the benefit of fire, It’s obvious he won’t make it. The culminating point of the story is when he tries to kill his dog but he can’t because he’s so cold. He has turned against the dog, perhaps the only thing that connected him to nature, and now he has nothing on his side. At least he does dose off into the most comfortable and satisfying sleep.
journal 40
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/19/08
Norris
Quote: “The two critically compared bruises. Missis Ryer was forced to admit that Trina’s bruise was the worse.”
Summary: Missis Ryer and Trina McTeague find themselves complaining about washing and cleaning for their husbands. Missis Ryer invites Trina over for some tea and they begin to talk. Soon the two women get into an argument about whose husband is better at beating them.
Response: Despite it’s tragic plot, I really enjoyed Fantaisie Printaniere. I was so shocked to find out that these two women were actually fighting about whose husband is better at beating them. I feel like, as a whole, this story does nothing to help women in their struggles for equality. We have these two women who once bonded together against their husbands but because of competition, a need for approval, a lack of confidence and jealousy turn these two comrades against each other. Meanwhile, the two husbands get a kick out of their wives’ pain and become best buddies. It really shows the two sexes in their worst light. In addition, it shows how weak women are in comparison to their men. I hope whoever reads this doesn’t give into these stereotypes but becomes influenced to prove the story wrong. I think that is why it’s such a good story because it really makes the reader feel something. I felt sorry for these women, frustrated with them and ashamed of them. The ending is heartbreaking because the women don’t resolve themselves and stay in abusive relationships but perhaps that was a reality Norris was trying to capture. However, I like to think they still have hope.
3/19/08
Norris
Quote: “The two critically compared bruises. Missis Ryer was forced to admit that Trina’s bruise was the worse.”
Summary: Missis Ryer and Trina McTeague find themselves complaining about washing and cleaning for their husbands. Missis Ryer invites Trina over for some tea and they begin to talk. Soon the two women get into an argument about whose husband is better at beating them.
Response: Despite it’s tragic plot, I really enjoyed Fantaisie Printaniere. I was so shocked to find out that these two women were actually fighting about whose husband is better at beating them. I feel like, as a whole, this story does nothing to help women in their struggles for equality. We have these two women who once bonded together against their husbands but because of competition, a need for approval, a lack of confidence and jealousy turn these two comrades against each other. Meanwhile, the two husbands get a kick out of their wives’ pain and become best buddies. It really shows the two sexes in their worst light. In addition, it shows how weak women are in comparison to their men. I hope whoever reads this doesn’t give into these stereotypes but becomes influenced to prove the story wrong. I think that is why it’s such a good story because it really makes the reader feel something. I felt sorry for these women, frustrated with them and ashamed of them. The ending is heartbreaking because the women don’t resolve themselves and stay in abusive relationships but perhaps that was a reality Norris was trying to capture. However, I like to think they still have hope.
Friday, March 14, 2008
journal 39
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/14/08
Zitkala Sa
Quote: "Zitkala Sa was an important Native American writer, orator, and debater; a singer, pianist, and violinist; and an active on behalf of women's and Native American rights."
Response: This is a quote from Gertrude Simmons Bonnin's introduction basically saying how great of a woman she was.
Summary: If anyone were to be a role modle, Zitkala Sa would be one of the best. Someone like her makes one think what they're doing with their life. Not only did she accomplish so many things politically, journalistically, musically, artistically, and socially, she accomlished them as a woman of color in a time when even white women had a hard time doing much of anything. Wow! It's astonishing to think that she was able to do any of it, let alone all of it. how she did it is beyond me. I hadn't heard of her untill English 1B but I think it would be really important for young girls to be educated about her, and other women like her, because she is such a strong female, I wish I had been. I also think that what makes her really likeable, in liturarture, is that aside from the fact that her stories tell a somewhat bitterly true experience, they make a really good read. She has important things historically and emotionally to say and she writes it all down really well. I am so amazed by her.
3/14/08
Zitkala Sa
Quote: "Zitkala Sa was an important Native American writer, orator, and debater; a singer, pianist, and violinist; and an active on behalf of women's and Native American rights."
Response: This is a quote from Gertrude Simmons Bonnin's introduction basically saying how great of a woman she was.
Summary: If anyone were to be a role modle, Zitkala Sa would be one of the best. Someone like her makes one think what they're doing with their life. Not only did she accomplish so many things politically, journalistically, musically, artistically, and socially, she accomlished them as a woman of color in a time when even white women had a hard time doing much of anything. Wow! It's astonishing to think that she was able to do any of it, let alone all of it. how she did it is beyond me. I hadn't heard of her untill English 1B but I think it would be really important for young girls to be educated about her, and other women like her, because she is such a strong female, I wish I had been. I also think that what makes her really likeable, in liturarture, is that aside from the fact that her stories tell a somewhat bitterly true experience, they make a really good read. She has important things historically and emotionally to say and she writes it all down really well. I am so amazed by her.
journal 38
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/14/08
Zitkala Sa
Quote: "I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while untill I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard then gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit."
Summary: After learning that the pale face people will cut her hair, Zitkala Sa runs and hides under a bed. People soon find her and cut off her long beautiful Native hair that represents who she is and her culture. Afterwords, she feels cowardly, alone and spiritless.
Response: This scene really reminded me of the slave narratives, I think it was from Equiano, that we read last quarter. I remember we read about the instituation of slavery and how the slave owners would change their slaves' names and to slpit them up so they couldn't get any sense of self or remeberence of who they were. When they cut the Native American girls' hair and took away their clothes and blankets I think of those slave narratives and how both people in power were trying to take away the oppressed's identity from them. It's sad to think that even though these kids thought they had a great opportunity the two groups were probably treated very simularly. It's also really sad when she says that she loses her spirit because she's only a nine year old little girl and someone her age shouldn't be experiencing that. What's even worse is that a few days earlier, she was filled with happiness knowing that her mother was allowing her to go to this school.
3/14/08
Zitkala Sa
Quote: "I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while untill I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard then gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit."
Summary: After learning that the pale face people will cut her hair, Zitkala Sa runs and hides under a bed. People soon find her and cut off her long beautiful Native hair that represents who she is and her culture. Afterwords, she feels cowardly, alone and spiritless.
Response: This scene really reminded me of the slave narratives, I think it was from Equiano, that we read last quarter. I remember we read about the instituation of slavery and how the slave owners would change their slaves' names and to slpit them up so they couldn't get any sense of self or remeberence of who they were. When they cut the Native American girls' hair and took away their clothes and blankets I think of those slave narratives and how both people in power were trying to take away the oppressed's identity from them. It's sad to think that even though these kids thought they had a great opportunity the two groups were probably treated very simularly. It's also really sad when she says that she loses her spirit because she's only a nine year old little girl and someone her age shouldn't be experiencing that. What's even worse is that a few days earlier, she was filled with happiness knowing that her mother was allowing her to go to this school.
journal 37
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/14/08
Sui Sin Far
Quote: “San Francisco’s waterfront was lined with ships and steamers, while other craft, large and small, including a couple of white transports the Philippines, lay at anchor here and there off shore.”
Summary: Lae Choo and her baby arrive from China in San Francisco, this quote describes what they can see.
Response: I thought this quote was important in setting not only the scene but also the mood of the story. It paints a really good picture but there’s a powerful punch in it when Sui Sin Far describes the boat from the Philippines. It’s ironic because Lae Choo is trying to come to America with her son but since the parents can’t legally prove that he is theirs the U.S.C won’t let the baby in, meanwhile there are boats full of products from Asian countries coming in and most likely being accepted in. We take Asian products for our use and benefit but we don’t accept the people from those countries. It seemed Sui Sin Far really emphasized that the transport was from the Philippines, she could have said it was from anywhere but she didn’t. She chose a country where Asian people live to show how the U.S. takes what it needs but won’t help out the people that provide for it.
3/14/08
Sui Sin Far
Quote: “San Francisco’s waterfront was lined with ships and steamers, while other craft, large and small, including a couple of white transports the Philippines, lay at anchor here and there off shore.”
Summary: Lae Choo and her baby arrive from China in San Francisco, this quote describes what they can see.
Response: I thought this quote was important in setting not only the scene but also the mood of the story. It paints a really good picture but there’s a powerful punch in it when Sui Sin Far describes the boat from the Philippines. It’s ironic because Lae Choo is trying to come to America with her son but since the parents can’t legally prove that he is theirs the U.S.C won’t let the baby in, meanwhile there are boats full of products from Asian countries coming in and most likely being accepted in. We take Asian products for our use and benefit but we don’t accept the people from those countries. It seemed Sui Sin Far really emphasized that the transport was from the Philippines, she could have said it was from anywhere but she didn’t. She chose a country where Asian people live to show how the U.S. takes what it needs but won’t help out the people that provide for it.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
journal 36
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/4/08
Gilman
Quote: "It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked."
Response: This quote is from Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself from Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"?This story is meant to empower people and I know I've been focusing on women but I think she lends this empowerment to the men who had to go through Mitchell's treatment too.
Summary: To try to take a different spin on the story, I thought of another way to interpret the main character and her position. I think it would work because it would be a more extreme interpretation of Gilman's feelings towards confined women. This would be what men actually drive women into. Maybe the woman was admitted to the institution at the same time the story says but her stay there is a lot longer than she thinks. John really isn’t her husband but just her doctor and that explains why he’s gone so often because he doesn’t actually live there; he plays along though just to keep her happy. However, he stays there some nights because it is his job and he has to keep watch. Jennie isn’t really his sister but an actual nurse at the ward and the women that the main character sees are other patients. She did have a child but due to her instability as a person, they wouldn’t let her keep it. Everything we get from her point of view is hallucinations and misunderstandings. She really believes John is her husband, she sees women and Jennie is just a housekeeper, but really, she’s crazy. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
3/4/08
Gilman
Quote: "It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked."
Response: This quote is from Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself from Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"?This story is meant to empower people and I know I've been focusing on women but I think she lends this empowerment to the men who had to go through Mitchell's treatment too.
Summary: To try to take a different spin on the story, I thought of another way to interpret the main character and her position. I think it would work because it would be a more extreme interpretation of Gilman's feelings towards confined women. This would be what men actually drive women into. Maybe the woman was admitted to the institution at the same time the story says but her stay there is a lot longer than she thinks. John really isn’t her husband but just her doctor and that explains why he’s gone so often because he doesn’t actually live there; he plays along though just to keep her happy. However, he stays there some nights because it is his job and he has to keep watch. Jennie isn’t really his sister but an actual nurse at the ward and the women that the main character sees are other patients. She did have a child but due to her instability as a person, they wouldn’t let her keep it. Everything we get from her point of view is hallucinations and misunderstandings. She really believes John is her husband, she sees women and Jennie is just a housekeeper, but really, she’s crazy. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
journal 35
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer."
Summary: This is the first line in the story and it tells us where the story will take place. I chose this quote because the words mere and ordinary stand out to me. It's as if anyone can be them because ordinary seems to pertain to most people. Also, she says her husbands name directly but not hers; we never learn her name.
Response: I enjoy looking at the character names in stories and what they might symbolize. John’s name is really ordinary, like he could symbolize any average male in that time period. However he is educated, so he would represent the average upper class male, which is the class that seemed to experience this type on inequality for women. Jennie is a flat character so either way, her name doesn’t seem significant. The woman, however, has no name and I think Gilman does this so any female can feel like they are, or have been, in the main character’s shoes. I think a lot of women felt confined, even Gilman, so she created a character that women all around could relate to. Obviously, the main character is extreme but I don’t think her desires are insane or that they weren’t things desired by a larger audience. It would be different if she were demanding singing kittens and flying pigs but what’s so crazy about wanting to see her friends, write and be more comfortable in the room she sleeps in.
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer."
Summary: This is the first line in the story and it tells us where the story will take place. I chose this quote because the words mere and ordinary stand out to me. It's as if anyone can be them because ordinary seems to pertain to most people. Also, she says her husbands name directly but not hers; we never learn her name.
Response: I enjoy looking at the character names in stories and what they might symbolize. John’s name is really ordinary, like he could symbolize any average male in that time period. However he is educated, so he would represent the average upper class male, which is the class that seemed to experience this type on inequality for women. Jennie is a flat character so either way, her name doesn’t seem significant. The woman, however, has no name and I think Gilman does this so any female can feel like they are, or have been, in the main character’s shoes. I think a lot of women felt confined, even Gilman, so she created a character that women all around could relate to. Obviously, the main character is extreme but I don’t think her desires are insane or that they weren’t things desired by a larger audience. It would be different if she were demanding singing kittens and flying pigs but what’s so crazy about wanting to see her friends, write and be more comfortable in the room she sleeps in.
On a different note, I thought the “rest” treatment and the opposite treatment for men was really weird and shocking. I can’t believe people actually thought that that would work. It’s like someone was scared of men and women to act differently, more like each other actually, so they created something to force each sex into the specific gender roles of the time to the extremes. Now that’s crazy.
journal 34
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "'Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug, 'she shall be sick as she pleases! But now let's improve the shining hours by going to sleep, and talk about it in the morning!'"
Response: The woman gets up in the night to feel the paper, but John wakes up. In this quote John treats her like a baby, he even uses the word little when referring to her. Then he brushes off her problem tells her to go to sleep and that they'll talk about it in the morning.
Summary: I find the character of John really interesting. It seems like his intentions are good, but when it comes down to being a husband, he’s really lousy. He’s so irritating too, the way he talks to the woman is so patronizing and delicate and he never gets angry with her. It seems he’s always careful in the words he chooses and his tone when he’s talking to her. Someone mentioned in class that they think John is away so often because he’s having an affair. I completely disagree with this interpretation. Just because he’s away on business a lot does not automatically mean he’s a cheater. I understand that it may have often happened between couples then and even today but to say that every businessman who travels cheats is stretching it. What does that say about men in our society, or better yet the women who take them as their husbands? I don’t think it was fair to label him, he might actually have to work over nights, who knows. Another thing that was brought up in class was that it’s ironic that he’s a doctor and looks after his patients rather than looking after his own wife. She’s obviously not well, and here she is telling him she’s sick but he ignores her.
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "'Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug, 'she shall be sick as she pleases! But now let's improve the shining hours by going to sleep, and talk about it in the morning!'"
Response: The woman gets up in the night to feel the paper, but John wakes up. In this quote John treats her like a baby, he even uses the word little when referring to her. Then he brushes off her problem tells her to go to sleep and that they'll talk about it in the morning.
Summary: I find the character of John really interesting. It seems like his intentions are good, but when it comes down to being a husband, he’s really lousy. He’s so irritating too, the way he talks to the woman is so patronizing and delicate and he never gets angry with her. It seems he’s always careful in the words he chooses and his tone when he’s talking to her. Someone mentioned in class that they think John is away so often because he’s having an affair. I completely disagree with this interpretation. Just because he’s away on business a lot does not automatically mean he’s a cheater. I understand that it may have often happened between couples then and even today but to say that every businessman who travels cheats is stretching it. What does that say about men in our society, or better yet the women who take them as their husbands? I don’t think it was fair to label him, he might actually have to work over nights, who knows. Another thing that was brought up in class was that it’s ironic that he’s a doctor and looks after his patients rather than looking after his own wife. She’s obviously not well, and here she is telling him she’s sick but he ignores her.
journal 33
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore.”
Summary: The main character and her husband go to a vacation house. She likes the house but something about it scares her. In this quote, she describes the room her husband puts her in.
Response: I think this room symbolizes a world that men in the early 20th century believed women should live in. The way Gilman describes how it is airy with lots of sunshine makes the room seem pretty and light, almost delicate, something only for a woman as if men are too tough for sunny, airy rooms. It was also described as a children’s playroom something commonly linked to women. In the room, there is the dreadful yellow wallpaper that she detests and it has been peeled off in some places around the room and above her bed. I think the wallpaper symbolizes a few things that equal a larger symbol. First, it is yellow and yellow is a loud anxious color. Second, as time goes by, the woman begins to see people, other women, trapped in the paper. Overall, this paper could symbolize a loud cry from these women, or the female society, to brake free from the walls of the room. This paper drives her mad to the point where she tears all of it down but in her mind, she is liberating these women, and more importantly, herself free from her husband’s dominance.
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore.”
Summary: The main character and her husband go to a vacation house. She likes the house but something about it scares her. In this quote, she describes the room her husband puts her in.
Response: I think this room symbolizes a world that men in the early 20th century believed women should live in. The way Gilman describes how it is airy with lots of sunshine makes the room seem pretty and light, almost delicate, something only for a woman as if men are too tough for sunny, airy rooms. It was also described as a children’s playroom something commonly linked to women. In the room, there is the dreadful yellow wallpaper that she detests and it has been peeled off in some places around the room and above her bed. I think the wallpaper symbolizes a few things that equal a larger symbol. First, it is yellow and yellow is a loud anxious color. Second, as time goes by, the woman begins to see people, other women, trapped in the paper. Overall, this paper could symbolize a loud cry from these women, or the female society, to brake free from the walls of the room. This paper drives her mad to the point where she tears all of it down but in her mind, she is liberating these women, and more importantly, herself free from her husband’s dominance.
journal 32
Nika Bogoslovsky
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "...John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon as put fireworks in my pillowcase as to let me have those stimulating people about now."
Summary: The main character is sick and she wants some company because she feels it would make her better. Her husband, John, won't allow it because he thinks it's bad for her to be social and have conversations that actually require some brains.
Response: I read this story in English 1B and then, like now, I thought it was a story about a woman struggling against her dominant husband for rights. I know in class we were discussing what everything might mean and that the main character could be crazy on her own but I think her husband puts her in that situation. I do fully believe that it is an empowering story for women and is meant to be, just like Kate Chopin’s The Awakening or The Story of an Hour. These early feminist stories seem to be a common theme at the time most likely because of the rising tension of inequality between men and women. It’s very clear that throughout the story, the more John restrains the woman, the more mad she becomes. He doesn’t comfort her at all, he’s gone a lot of the time, and he won’t let her do anything human beings need to be content. As much as it seems crazy, by tearing down all that paper she got his attention. But anyone who’s locked up in a house without love, friends or a few books, in a room that freaks you out is bound to crazy at some point anyway. John really did ask for it.
3/3/08
Gilman
Quote: "...John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon as put fireworks in my pillowcase as to let me have those stimulating people about now."
Summary: The main character is sick and she wants some company because she feels it would make her better. Her husband, John, won't allow it because he thinks it's bad for her to be social and have conversations that actually require some brains.
Response: I read this story in English 1B and then, like now, I thought it was a story about a woman struggling against her dominant husband for rights. I know in class we were discussing what everything might mean and that the main character could be crazy on her own but I think her husband puts her in that situation. I do fully believe that it is an empowering story for women and is meant to be, just like Kate Chopin’s The Awakening or The Story of an Hour. These early feminist stories seem to be a common theme at the time most likely because of the rising tension of inequality between men and women. It’s very clear that throughout the story, the more John restrains the woman, the more mad she becomes. He doesn’t comfort her at all, he’s gone a lot of the time, and he won’t let her do anything human beings need to be content. As much as it seems crazy, by tearing down all that paper she got his attention. But anyone who’s locked up in a house without love, friends or a few books, in a room that freaks you out is bound to crazy at some point anyway. John really did ask for it.
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