Katie Freudensprung
ENG 1123
3 December 2017
Analysis Paper
The Yellow Wallpaper In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is trapped in a battle of post pardon depression, while also being subject to the oppression of being a woman in the 19th century. The narrator is not only struggling to recover from the depression that she gained from the birth of her child, but she feels trapped to do so with all the rules on how she is supposed to feel and supposed to act. While trying to recover, the narrator slowly loses all parts of her mind due to society’s implement of the rest cure. The setting of this work is very important. The narrator describes it as, “… quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three …show more content…
The narrator states, “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman.” (150) There is certainly not a woman trapped behind the wall paper. It shows that she is finding herself hidden or trapped behind her illness with no hopes of being able to escape. This is expressed later when she states, “I’ve got out at last…I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back.” (261) Although the narrator has completely lost her mind at this point of the story, it is ironic that she believed there was a woman trapped behind the wallpaper that she had to help escape. Through her stay for her rest cure and requirements of being a woman in this era, the narrator loses her self and her mind. While she may have started the stay with a simple depression the rest cure causes her to lose herself completely and become the insane person society labels her …show more content…
When she is ripping the paper from the wall she states, “I pulled, and she shook. I shook, and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of paper.” (217) This represents the internal struggle she had to remove herself from the veils of the paper and society. She spent her entire recovery time at the home trying to do exactly as she was told, but it was constricting her. She desperately wanted to be ‘well’ but she didn’t quite know how. During the removal of the wall paper she was releasing herself for the mental wall she was trapped in. Her mental state was destroyed from the implements of society and the treatment from doctors in that era. In her mind though, she was completely freed. The narrator no longer cared what others thought of her. She was free to express herself how she
ENG 1123
3 December 2017
Analysis Paper
The Yellow Wallpaper In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is trapped in a battle of post pardon depression, while also being subject to the oppression of being a woman in the 19th century. The narrator is not only struggling to recover from the depression that she gained from the birth of her child, but she feels trapped to do so with all the rules on how she is supposed to feel and supposed to act. While trying to recover, the narrator slowly loses all parts of her mind due to society’s implement of the rest cure. The setting of this work is very important. The narrator describes it as, “… quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three …show more content…
The narrator states, “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman.” (150) There is certainly not a woman trapped behind the wall paper. It shows that she is finding herself hidden or trapped behind her illness with no hopes of being able to escape. This is expressed later when she states, “I’ve got out at last…I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back.” (261) Although the narrator has completely lost her mind at this point of the story, it is ironic that she believed there was a woman trapped behind the wallpaper that she had to help escape. Through her stay for her rest cure and requirements of being a woman in this era, the narrator loses her self and her mind. While she may have started the stay with a simple depression the rest cure causes her to lose herself completely and become the insane person society labels her …show more content…
When she is ripping the paper from the wall she states, “I pulled, and she shook. I shook, and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of paper.” (217) This represents the internal struggle she had to remove herself from the veils of the paper and society. She spent her entire recovery time at the home trying to do exactly as she was told, but it was constricting her. She desperately wanted to be ‘well’ but she didn’t quite know how. During the removal of the wall paper she was releasing herself for the mental wall she was trapped in. Her mental state was destroyed from the implements of society and the treatment from doctors in that era. In her mind though, she was completely freed. The narrator no longer cared what others thought of her. She was free to express herself how she