Summary Of The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins...

Am I Hysterical for Writing This? If we all saw through the eyes of women, would we see the world a different way? Would we all be considered hysterical? Or would we just all be â€Å"normal†? In the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and the novel The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki we see the metamorphosis of two women under two very different scenarios. The unnamed woman in The Yellow Wallpaper is stuck in a room where she transforms into a completely different soul. In The Key, the wife, Ikuko appears to also transition throughout the novel, but in the end we are left questioning whether she truly changed or if we, the readers, were just lied to and her true character really came out. Both stories begin with the women acting in a way that is â€Å"acceptable† by their husbands, but throughout the novel we see them blossom from submissive wives into their inner, independent, selves. In this imagination challenge I will focus on what happened durin g the in between, the metamorphosis period, and consider their mindsets and the outside pressures they faced that made them into the feminists that they both are at the end of their stories. Feminism means all different things according to different people. Scholar Sylvia Walby mentions in her book that the term ‘feminist’ has become â€Å"contentious† and â€Å"stigmatized†, but â€Å"an alternative approach to the definition of feminism is to consider people and projects that pursue the goal of reducing gender inequality to be