In the passage “The Cottagette” the narrator Malda is sharing a cottage at High Court for the summer with her best friend Lois to follow their dreams. Malda like music and a creative mind. She talks about how much she loves being there and how pleasant the place was.

“I like the music very well, and kept my thoughts to myself, both high and low, but “The Cottagette” I loved unreservedly.It was so little and new and clean,smelling only of its fresh-planed boards–they hadn’t even stained it.”

After she goes on about how harmonious High Court was such a grateful place, she talk about meeting interesting people and one particular person, Ford Mathews. A guy that was a newspaper man,that is becoming a writer for a magazines and books. She became really close to this person, by going on long walks with him and going over to his cave for tea. They both became interesting into each other work and goals. They started to become very fond of each other and Malda began to fall in love with him. Malda wanted to do things to enhance their relationship to please Mr.Mathews by doing homemaker work such as cooking and cleaning. She got the idea from her friend Lois due to the fact that she has been married before, but unfortunately divorced. She thought that Lois has experience in knowing what a guys wants. However, in this case, you found out that this is not true.

“It is not true, always, my dear,” said he, “that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach; at least it’s not the only way. Lois doesn’t know everything, she is young yet!”

Ford Mathews proposes to Malda in one condition which is to stop being a homemaker. One reason is because it is distracting her from pursuing her dreams as an artist. He told her he would do the cooking because he was use to it. Mathew’s father was a cook and Mathews actually cooked for a living to make money. From Malda cooking she was not doing a great job with her creative distinctive art.

If this story was able to continue, most likely you can see that Malda was going to be able to marry a guy that loves her and want her to accomplish her dreams. He was not going to let anything stand in the way of that.

In the passage “The Yellow Wall-Paper” the narrator is very ill. She’s going through a nervous depression. She is staying in a place for summer vacation. She consider a haunted house where is suppose to stay clear minded and for not doing any activities.

As stated in my discussion, the narrator states“John is practical in the extreme.He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition,and scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.”However, her husband John actually does follow these traits,there were times that he did the opposite. For example, when the narrator is not making any progress by showing sign that she is getting better, John threatens her by sending her Weir Mitchell. Later on in the story John has a different perspective. The narrator states John actually having faith by giving her hope. “John says I musn’t lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics…” These types of actions play through back and forth throughout the story.

In the story, the narrator secretly writes when her husband  is not around. She thinks is helping her with her sickness.

“I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.”

She also feels like she is not playing the wife role and only being a burden towards her husband.

“I meant to be such a help to John,such a real rest and comfort,and here I am a comparative burden already!

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,-to dress and entertain, and order things.”

She is not able to do these things because of her nervousness. John her husband and her brother who are physician believe that Jane is not sick. This makes the narrator Jane upset because they are having miscommunication.

“I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes.. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”

“I don’t like our room one bit.I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window,and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hanging! but John would not hear of it.”

In these two stories, both of the narrators had two different feelings towards the environment they were around. In “The Cottagette”, the narrator loved and was happy to be in the place she was because she was pursuing her dreams. In “The Yellow Wall-Paper” the narrator was did not want to be place in that environment and it bothered her throughout her whole entire time there. Both of these settings took place during the summer in an environment that supposedly were  not their normal resident. Although, the actions that took place in these two stories it did not effect them because of the setting, but because of their personality. It doesn’t matter where someone lives, those are just temporary fixes. Eventually everyone will be who they are regardless of the environment you would have to work on their own issues in order to make any relationship work.

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