A.P Lit psychoanalysis review

In the argument of psychoanalysis proposed originally by Sigmond Freud, the following review emphasizes the importance of Edith Wharton's biographies to compare her book, Ethan Frome and her real life.  It was proposed that Edith Wharton wrote the book Ethan Frome as a partial way of her unconscious mind expressing the repressed feelings she had about her mother and father.  More importance relating to her father, it is believed that Edith Wharton has many feelings of guilt not only relating to her relationship with her parents but her own marriage as well as social expectations.  Wharton also apparently had witnessed her ego trying daring to dream about intimate relations with her father, and therefore her superego punished her because they were her unconscious mind coming to the surface.  This experience that Wharton has related to Mattie and Ethan when they become crippled.  Many symbols help prove this psychoanalytical point of view for Ethan Frome.  One is Zeena's cat.  This cat serves as social moral views that keep Ethan's and Mattie's Id and superego from clashing.  This cat is what forbids the relationship between the two of them at the house.  The pickle dish served as a punishment to Mattie by Zeena's cat since Mattie was taking Zeena's place.  Also the comparison of Wharton's dream to Ethan's dream is a very compelling argument in proving the psychoanalysis theory.  Since Wharton dreamt of her father in an inappropriate manner she feels guilt clash with desire.  This desire needs to be punished due to her superego which is exactly what Ethan goes through.  Ethan's id desires Mattie and he feels guilty due to his superego seeing the moral views of it, making there a need for punishment, which is why Ethan doesn't kill himself with Mattie.  I think this argument is definitely valid.  I agree because it seems with this argument everything falls into place and has believable reasons for everything.  There is detail in why the symbols appear to be the way they do along with describing why Wharton had the dreams she did by using dream analysis which is a valid way of finding the unconscious mind.  I thought that this was a very interesting article.  I enjoyed reading it because it made sense and was extreme because the theories are considered to be a little bit out of the ordinary.  But what else would be expected when talking about Sigmond Freud's theories?

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

           In "The Yellow Wallpaper", there is a girl that is writing constantly.  I find this strange because nobody else "allows" her to write.  This girl writes about random things and seems to be extremely scatter brained.  She has many thoughts about different experiences she has had and people she is surrounded by, but they seem to be random and spur of the moment thoughts.  This girl's husband tells her that the sickness that this girl possesses takes time to get better.  I feel like it is a lie.  She really can’t do much work and is patronized by many people.  It is almost as if she is babied.  The people that care for her don’t believe she is capable of doing things a wife should do at this time.  In my opinion, I think this girl might have a mental sickness, not a physical sickness.  The only reason why I feel like this is because the people that we have been introduced to treat her like she is a little girl.  Her husband even calls her little girl.  Calling your spouse little girl is far from normal.  The woman writes “I cry at nothing, and I cry most of the time” (Gilman, 7) which hints that there really is something wrong with her and it is not physical.  This girl also despises the wallpaper that is in her room.  She doesn’t mind everything else her husband has put in the room, but she can’t stand the wallpaper.  Even knowing that, the husband ignores her and does nothing about it.  This makes me think that her husband doesn’t value her opinion and is more concerned on what he thinks is important.  Her husband doesn’t take her ideas into consideration because he feels that she is inferior.  The inferiority is sensed when her husband talks to her the way he does, in a mocking and patronizing tone.