The structure of The Yellow Wallpaper creates a sense of immediacy and intimacy. ... In the beginning, the paper's pattern jolts and annoys the narrator's sensibilities, but later her attitude has a bizarre change. ... As the narrator works, she identifies more closely and intensely with the trapped woman until, ultimately, she loses her sense of individual identity and merges with the woman behind the wallpaper. ...
In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. ...
In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. ...
