English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sigmund Freud, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Imagism
16 Jan 2017
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Excellent short story to practice close reading on. At some points she wants to be well and the girl that john wants. Then at some points she wants to be ill. Realism offers an inquiry into the mind. The narrator often contradicts herself the birth of modernism in this period. Representing what the narrator is afraid of. Houses as a symbol of your own self. She herself sort of haunted the attic. Remember what we"ve learned about the attic space in harriet jacobs" work. The idea of the haunted house, then her disregarding of it. The bed is nailed down, scratches on the wood and the wall. She shuts down her own personal feelings consistently. John represents the cold, rational enlightenment process of thinking. She has a stereotyped representation of what she thinks marriage is. He denies it, she swears she is ill. The medical realm didn"t really take it seriously.
