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The Relation Between the Setting And the Character In
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The Relation Between the Setting And the Character In "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Big Two-Hearted River" Lidia Rigga I MSU The aim of this paper is to analyze the importance and relation of the setting and characters in the two short stories: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ernest Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River". The setting in "The Yellow Wallpaper" helps illustrate the theme of solitary confinement and exclusion from the public resulting in insanity. The house rented by the characters for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery suggest an isolated environment. Because of its vast "colonial mansion" look, its age and state of degradation, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. The nursery room with barred windows provides an image of loneliness and seclusion experienced by the protagonist. If Gilman's story could be thought as a house, structurally it is nearly all interior,...
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