Sleepy
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
The yellow wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper is also a short story comprised almost of six thousand words. It was written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the years 1892 January. It was published in the New England magazine. This story revolves around a young female who was moved with her family to a farm house away from her home as she was suffering from some sort of depression. Her husband, thinking of her rest, gives her a room on the top floor which was a nursery. The woman being isolated for most of the time fell in attraction with the yellow wall paper in her room.
The setting and its importance
Setting is the part of any story which tells the surroundings, the circumstances and the situation in which a story takes place. It sketches the situation in the mind of the reader. It organizes the concepts and information in the mind of reader cognitively. Setting also imposes its effects on the characters (Jones and Song 447-476).
The setting of sleepy is girl who is up late in the night. She is working as a worker in a house of three people; her master, his misses and his new born son.
The role of the setting
Both the stories have their own setting. In sleepy, the young teenagers were working as a house made and a nanny for a family and their young child. She was considered as a slave and had been facing brutal behavior of her masters.
The setting in this story has shown the tiredness with which Varka used to go through. This caused constant exhaustion in her. This not only caused her physical exhaustion but also mental exhaustion. She wanted to take rest but she couldn’t. These setting provoked her and she was forced to do a crime.
In the yellow wall paper, the young lady had been suffering from postpartum depression which is one of the causes of depression among women after their deliveries.
Connection between setting and the situation faced by character
She belongs to a very poor family. Her father has died. She used to all the work in the house as a maid whether it is cleaning, cooking, serving and looking after the baby. She was under a lot of work the whole day. She used to get tired by doing each and every chore of the house. Her master and his misses were very cruel who would not let Varka take rest for a single while. They used to keep on harassing her. They even used to beat her. In the night, when everyone used to go to sleep, she was not even allowed to sleep at that time. She was forced to look after the baby in the night so that the baby should not make any noise and sleep. Varka was also afraid that if she will fall asleep, her master will beat her. She had been beaten many times for sleeping in the night. This caused her exhaustion. She was unable to think of her own. With her half opened eyes, she used to see her parents. She used to see her father dying and her mother pleading. She also used to see some mud and a constant screaming which she could not recognized. These nightmares were all because of the exhaustion she was facing in her real life. The exhaustion had gotten her into psychosis. The screaming she used to hear in her dream caused her to kill the baby as she was considering the baby as her enemy. After killing the baby, she was able to sleep. All the exhaustion became night mare for Varka. This caused her to become patient of psychosis and held her to commit a crime.
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
Sleepy is a short story which was published in 1888 by Anton Chekhov. It was published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta’s No. 24 in January 1888. It was then a part of Adolf Marks, a collection of all of the stories by Antov Chekhov. This story represents the story of thirteen years old Varka who was hired as a nanny for a baby boy. She has to do all the home chores as well as has to look after the baby whole night without sleeping. She had the fear I she will fall asleep, her master and his misses will beat her (Glotova 2445-2454).
In the yellow wall paper, the woman was being afflicted with postpartum depression was one of the cause for development of psychosis in the character. She was already in depression which his husband took wrong. As being a well wisher for her health, he took her to take rest with his sister. The women of that time were not taken into consideration as well as not their sufferings in that time. As per the physician, the women was kept into isolation in a room on the top floor. It quite food and air. was ensured that she gets adequate rest, adequate sleep, condition of the top floor was not good. It was wrecked. The floor was broken and the wall paper was torn. In the amidst of all tehse dull surroundings, the character found a very attractive thing. That attractive thing was the yellow wall paper. As she thought herself of being neglected so she confined her thinking to that yellow wallpaper. She used to appreciate its dressing
Comparison of the setting of the stories
Sleepy is the story which was published in 1880s while the yellow wall paper was published in 1890s.
Sleepy revolves around a single teenager girl who does not have any of her kid. The yellow wall paper is for the lady who had her own kid which led to her depression after his birth.
Both of the characters have a common point that they faced stress because of a baby.
Both of the women faced isolation in some of the point for Varka it was in the night and the character in the yellow wall paper was isolated for most of the time. Both of the women had gone into madness which caused suffering for the people around them.
