" Through the use of a rhetorical question, the author has emphasised the authority Mattie's father has over her and also shows us the underlying values of society at the time which forced the women in families to give up everything for their family duties. ... Donnelly and Frankel have chosen to represent women in certain ways that highlight societal pressure....
The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. It is through this that we see our main characters transition into a world that only s...
Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...
