ENG 266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hysterectomy, The Smell, The Yellow Wallpaper
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Character rather than plot: when you see nothing happened you have to look at what"s going on internally in a character. Wrote in a romantic fashion while everyone was writing realistically. Wrote about the city vs. country: sylvia (character, little girl) moved from city to country and the country and its nature healed her. Resisted modernity and industrialization: had a romantic view of nature. Sylvan means of the woods. p. 414 first sentence, sylvia loitered. She was a woods girl, creatures looked at her as one of themselves. More natural than human, she plays with animals. A man comes in and tries to offer something not of nature. This man was a hunter, he killed birds and wanted to stuff and sell them. Offers sylvia to find a white heron so he can kill it. That kind of money could make a better life for her and her grandmother, but she would have to betray her nature.
