Relationships in The Storm, The Yellow Wallpaper and Young Goodman Brow

Because writing is inherently romantic in nature, throughout the record of literature, we see many authors insights into the enigmatic and often ambiguous subject of chicane and relationships. Three short stories penned by three separate American writers muddle with such matter Charlotte Perkins Gillman in The Yellow Wallpaper, Kate Chopin in The set upon, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in Young Goodman Brown. Though the relationships presented in each of these stories are crotchety in their own persuasion, the same underlying theme runs true in all. At first glance all of these relationships may appear whole in their existence however, further introspection uncovers specific maladies which I cogitate elicit much of the discord which arises within each of these writings. All of the husbands in the aforementioned short stories evoke, though some more subtly than others, alter degrees of conflict. Gillmans The Yellow Wallpaper is a romance pertaining to, and narrated by, a women suff ering from first after the recent birth of a child. Although the name of the women in the story is never revealed, many believe this is short story is an excerpt from the authors life. oft of the setting of the story takes place in an aging mansion tardily inhabited by the teller and John, the narrators husband. Due to her affliction and under strict instruction of her husband John, who is also a physician, the narrator is sentenced to bed lay in one of the upper rooms of the house. The walls of the room in which the narrator is forced to occupy, are enveloped with decrepit yellow wallpaper displaying an irksome frame which, coupled with the ennui of doing nothing, works in a maleficent port on the mental sanctity of the narrator. The ... ...horne suggests in his writing that Brown down victim to the latter. Often, awakening suddenly at midnight,, Hawthorne says of Goodman Brown, he shrank from the bosom of organized religion and at morning or eventide, when the family knel t down at prayer, he scowled and muttered to himself, and gazed hard at his wife, and turned a Many, I am sure, could interpret or acquisition other sources of conflict for each of the three given stories, as could I. However, I have shown that the ultimate inception of discord must be attributed to the husbands in these stories. Though with varying degrees of distinctness, Johns inability to truly understand his wifes ineluctably in The Yellow Wallpaper, Bobinots apathy towards Calixta in The Storm, and Browns demand of faith in Young Goodman Brown, each act as the kindling used to incite the flame of conflict within these writings.