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The Character of John in The Yellow Wallpaperâ â Â Â John's interest with watching his better half can be ascribed to a doctor's contorted enthusiasm for the body. We can absolutely guess that, as doctors when the new century rolled over were starting to investigate the female body helped by improvements in gynecology, John may have been similarly inspired by these new procedures of review the female body. More so than any time in recent memory, the patient and her body got subject to the doctor's benefit to personally watch and analyze her. Â Â Â Â Â Ostensibly, the storyteller's sickness isn't physiological, yet mental. John infers that his significant other is well with the exception of a brief anxious melancholy - a slight crazy inclination, a finding that is affirmed by the storyteller's own doctor sibling (Gilman 10). John's calling, and in addition his finding, is a permit to intently watch, examine, watch, look at, search out, and research his better half and her infirmities, which thus allows him to convey apparently limitless (clinical, logical) implies for (re)formulating and (re)presenting the hysteric female- - not just to give her verbose portrayal, yet so as to de-bewilder her riddle and promise himself that she is, at long last, measurable, innocuous, and non-undermining. To talk about John in psychoanalytic terms, his distraction with his better half, her body, and her imprisonment, uncovers implicit nerves: the dread of mutilation and the do not have the female body speaks to. Â Â Â Â Â There are, as Mulvey clarifies, two different ways a man can conceivably get away from emasculation nervousness. One is a voyeuristic course wherein the man is worried about re-establishing the first injury. Here the man is worried about asc... ...ican Fiction. 17 (1989): 193-201. Haney-Peritz, Janice. Stupendous Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Women's Studies. 12 (1986): 113-128. Kasmer, Lisa. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Symptomatic Reading. Literature and Psychology. 36, (1990): 1-15. Jordanova, Ludmilla. Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth Centuries. London: Harrester Wheatsheaf, 1989. Mulvey, Laura. Pandora: Topographies of the Mask and Curiosity. Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. Princeton: Princeton Papers on Architecture, 1992. 53-71. - . Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen. 16 (1975): 6-18. Wigley, Mark. Untitled: The Housing of Pleasure. Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. Princeton Papers on Architecture, 1992. 327-389.