Loss and Dispair

The ending of the movie is indicative of the dispair of a husband losing his wife, and a woman going mad.The horror that the husband feels at the symbolic death of his wife is overwhelming. The problem with this film is that it is based upon a story by Gilman that descibes the ordeal of a woman going through the ineffective cures of her time. The era was one of pain--the men and women both held things to be true that even in their own life experiences had proven to be false. They held these views as steadfast civil human beings should; and deserved thier misery as well. The truth is that no one should go mad in a mad world; their husband or wife should be there for them. The characters in both the story and the badly adapted movie have a long way to go before they can equitably deal with humanity.