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The Character of John in The Yellow Wallpaperâ â Â Â John's interest with watching his better half can be credited to a doctor's twisted enthusiasm for the body. We can surely guess that, as doctors when the new century rolled over were starting to investigate the female body helped by improvements in gynecology, John may have been similarly intrigued by these new procedures of review the female body. More so than any other time in recent memory, the patient and her body got subject to the doctor's benefit to personally watch and analyze her. Â Â Â Â Â Ostensibly, the storyteller's ailment isn't physiological, yet mental. John infers that his better half is well aside from a transitory anxious melancholy - a slight insane propensity, a conclusion that is affirmed by the storyteller's own doctor sibling (Gilman 10). John's calling, and in addition his conclusion, is a permit to intently watch, examine, watch, look at, search out, and research his significant other and her diseases, which thusly allows him to send apparently boundless (clinical, logical) implies for (re)formulating and (re)presenting the hysteric female- - not just to give her desultory portrayal, however so as to de-perplex her secret and promise himself that she is, at last, measurable, innocuous, and non-compromising. To discuss John in psychoanalytic terms, his distraction with his better half, her body, and her control, uncovers implicit tensions: the dread of mutilation and the do not have the female body speaks to. Â Â Â Â Â There are, as Mulvey clarifies, two different ways a man can conceivably get away from mutilation tension. One is a voyeuristic course where the man is worried about re-establishing the first injury. Here the man is worried about asc... ...ican Fiction. 17 (1989): 193-201. Haney-Peritz, Janice. Stupendous Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Women's Studies. 12 (1986): 113-128. Kasmer, Lisa. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Symptomatic Reading. Literature and Psychology. 36, (1990): 1-15. Jordanova, Ludmilla. Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth Centuries. London: Harrester Wheatsheaf, 1989. Mulvey, Laura. Pandora: Topographies of the Mask and Curiosity. Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. Princeton: Princeton Papers on Architecture, 1992. 53-71. - . Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen. 16 (1975): 6-18. Wigley, Mark. Untitled: The Housing of Pleasure. Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. Princeton Papers on Architecture, 1992. 327-389.