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Tyer 1Drew Tyer Jennifer McCuneENGL 131224 February 2005No Work and No Play Makes Jane a Dull GirlJane in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The color Wallpaper was fey as some feel out long before she was prescribed, and administered the rest recuperate by her husband for her then un jockeyn ailment now called postpartum depression. The boredom and isolation of this cure only allowed her sagacity to venture further down a dark and winding corridor of insanity. Jane has recently had a babe and is experiencing what we know today as postpartum depression. Back in the 1800s doctors had no understanding of these symptoms, so they chalked it all up to a temporary head-in-the-clouds depression. This was cured by a treatment called the rest cure popularized by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. This remedy consisted mainly of isolation and bed rest. We now know that this does zippo to promote a healthy mind or body. But, at the meter this was the best-known cure. As a child Jane had hallucinations, I u sed to lie in awake as a child and get more fun and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could convey in a toy-store.(Gilman 593). This sort of behavior is more than just your middling childs rampant imagination. This is truly the sound of someone who is delusional and needs some form of psychological counseling. This overly active similar delusional behavior followed Jane to adulthood, and was noticed but dismissed as delicate silliness by her husband even before the baby came about, ... he says that Tyer 2 with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of provoke fancies...(Gilman 592) Anytime Jane acted a little bit weird he would just say it was her hyperactive imagination at work again. Little did he know the depths of her problems that were to become evident over the next three months. The demons in her mind first began to attack her psyche about ... ...traits of a mentally u nassured individual. The rest cure coupled with the postpartum depression Tyer 4 she was experiencing just now accelerated the mental flaws she had, and brought about the inevitable. The cure had taken an already frangible mind and thrown it into complete and total disarray. Tyer 5 Works CitedGilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Literature An Introduction to Reading And Writing. 7th ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper appoint River Prentice Hall. 2004. 590-600.