Types Of Literary Analysis Of The Chosen Stories

There are multiple types of literary analysis tools that one would use to analyze the following stories. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “The Veldt”, and “The Story of an Hour” and the analysis tools one would use are psychoanalytical, archetypical, feminism, and Marxist. A Marxist lens type focuses on the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force in history and that there should eventually be a society in which there are no classes. A feminist lens to closely analyze how women are portrayed and presented in comparison to men. An archetypal lens is used by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary work. And lastly the psychoanalytical lens means a better understanding characters, their relationships, and the effects of the author’s motivations on the text.

Someone might infer that the three stories all apply to the feminist lens the most, except the short story, “The Veldt”, that short story applies more towards the Marxist lens. Based on contextual clues and what one might read from the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, they would say that the short story, which is now described as a gothic feminist story, fits the most with the feminist lens. “Most men’s eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.” In this quote the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, talks about how when she looked at her husband on the outside and the way he looked at her she loved that, but when she stared into his eyes and looked into his soul she did not see the same passion she had for him. In relation to the feminist lens, this can be looked at as a way that the female figure is actually looked down on by her husband and that he thinks she should just remain in the room and not express herself. “I don't like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”. In this quote the main protagonist is slowly letting the insanity of the yellow wallpaper take over her brain because of the fact that she has to sit in the room all alone to cure her insanity.

Through the feminist lens this can be related because of the fact that the main character’s husband is practically imprisoning her in an old room they used to use as a nursery. This shows the fact that she cannot stand up to society and tell him that she doesn't want to do this because she knows it won’t work but also because she doesn't want to be looked down upon by society.