The Yellow Wallpaper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story. The ‘Yellow Wallpaper ‘was written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Would you go crazy if you got locked in a room by your husband? The Narrator did. There may have been question if she was already mentally ill or if her husband caused her to go crazy. The Narrator may have had a few issues before, but her lack of control, her husband, and being imprisoned and isolated made those small problems much worse. Her husband made her feel as if she a child because she was kept in a nursery. The narrator's husband was not your average husband; “he hardly let [her] stir without special direction.” (170) John is a physician and he believes his wife is suffering from a “temporary nervous depression.” (766) Since John believes she is ill he is controlling and “practical in the extreme.” (766). Also her husband will not let her write or see her baby or visit her sister. The narrator gets watched by a babysitter because ‘John is [gone] all day.”(page number) She also gets fed and is taking medication, like a routine. The narrator also had no access to any materials she had before. The narrator did not have access to these because husband isolated her in a nursery. That nursery had child proof equipment all over the room. She had lack of control because of her husband’s beliefs. …show more content…
She believed that “[she] never saw [anything uglier] in [her] life.” (768) The narrator said it ‘looked as if a boy’s school had used.” (768) Whoever decorated the room needs to learn a thing or two; “No wonder the children should hate it.” (769) The narrator also believed there was a woman in the wallpaper. She believed she saw “the front patterns move [because] the woman behind shakes it!” (775) The narrator says she see’s eyes everywhere; “up and down and sideways they crawl , and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere.”
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story. The ‘Yellow Wallpaper ‘was written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Would you go crazy if you got locked in a room by your husband? The Narrator did. There may have been question if she was already mentally ill or if her husband caused her to go crazy. The Narrator may have had a few issues before, but her lack of control, her husband, and being imprisoned and isolated made those small problems much worse. Her husband made her feel as if she a child because she was kept in a nursery. The narrator's husband was not your average husband; “he hardly let [her] stir without special direction.” (170) John is a physician and he believes his wife is suffering from a “temporary nervous depression.” (766) Since John believes she is ill he is controlling and “practical in the extreme.” (766). Also her husband will not let her write or see her baby or visit her sister. The narrator gets watched by a babysitter because ‘John is [gone] all day.”(page number) She also gets fed and is taking medication, like a routine. The narrator also had no access to any materials she had before. The narrator did not have access to these because husband isolated her in a nursery. That nursery had child proof equipment all over the room. She had lack of control because of her husband’s beliefs. …show more content…
She believed that “[she] never saw [anything uglier] in [her] life.” (768) The narrator said it ‘looked as if a boy’s school had used.” (768) Whoever decorated the room needs to learn a thing or two; “No wonder the children should hate it.” (769) The narrator also believed there was a woman in the wallpaper. She believed she saw “the front patterns move [because] the woman behind shakes it!” (775) The narrator says she see’s eyes everywhere; “up and down and sideways they crawl , and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere.”