Essay on Appearance vs Reality in Yellow Wallpaper, Story of an Hour, a

Appearance versus reality in Yellow Wallpaper, write up of an min, and Lottery Authors often write belles-lettres to have an emotional impact on the reader. These effects vary from crop to work, and they may include happiness, sorrow, anger, or shock. Even authors who try to achieve the aforementioned(prenominal) effect may go about it in very antithetical ways. This paper discusses iii short stories written to shock the reader, but to each one uses a different method to achieve its effect. While Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour uses a sudden shift in plot at the mop up of a short narrative, Shirley Jacksons The Lottery gives hints throughout the story preparing the reader for a shocking ending in contrast, Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper shocks its readers through studious character development. The fibber of Gilmans 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper is a woman who seeks professional medical assistance to treat her mild printing and nervousness iro nically, the treatment is much worse than the illness itself. At the condemnation Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, the accepted treatment for depression was complete rest in an isolated environment. The narrators husband, a doctor, forces her to undergo this treatment consequently, he imprisons her in a small room with no one to talk to and nothing to do. When the narrator is trapped in this prison, her only enjoyment is secretly writing in her journal. Since ... ...ing, but The Story of an Hour is more sudden. It is not shocking, however, that all three stories successfully impact the reader. Works Cited Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery. Literature and Its Writers An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Eds. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. capital of Massachusetts Bedford Books, 1997. 308-14. Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. Literature and Its Writers An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Eds. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Boston Bedford Books, 1997. 158 -9. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Literature and Its Writers An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Eds. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Boston Bedford Books, 1997. 230-42