A brave woman sang a sombre song from a birdcage in the late 19th century. As a novelist and also well-known feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman fearlessly spoke up about her conception, freedom, in her masterpiece “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She proposed big issue-divorce- around that time. In this semi-autographical story, she describes her conflict of marital discord. Gilman intertwines her frustrations about a relationship with her husband and depicts the distress through many symbolisms, so that people should be aware what a genuine happiness as a human being is. Through Else’s responses and behavior, Gilman pointed out that females are given a disadvantage by their husbands. For example, she explains that John stands high because of his social
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At first, Gilman describes her mental condition by the color of the dark yellow wallpaper. According to the website, bourncreative, dull, dingy yellow represent caution, sickness, and jealousy (bourncreative). Second, she stunningly symbolizes the curtain as her marital relationship; after they had usual bickering, she earnestly starts thinking about her future in the bed. “The front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately (771).” Gilman depicts her husband as the front pattern and she should be in the back pattern; she was struggling under the pressure to continue marriage relationship with him, or she should divorce. When the curtain waves by the wind, her intention also sways, sometimes faintly and perhaps occasionally violently. Then, Else begins to question John’s unfaithful, and the suspicious annoys her to have hallucinations of many women’s shadows from the curtain. Next, she symbolize how she suffers in her marriage by the curtain, toadstools are painted as if it is in joint and shape of strings in endless convolutions (771). From the expression, we sense she suffered under delusion around and around in her mind. Finally, she clinches to separate from him; she no longer feels John’s affection toward her. She mentions that “He pretended to be very loving and kind as if I couldn’t see though him” (773). End of the story, Else is gradually connecting these dots, and she decides to get out of his captive because she feels like the living
At first, Gilman describes her mental condition by the color of the dark yellow wallpaper. According to the website, bourncreative, dull, dingy yellow represent caution, sickness, and jealousy (bourncreative). Second, she stunningly symbolizes the curtain as her marital relationship; after they had usual bickering, she earnestly starts thinking about her future in the bed. “The front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately (771).” Gilman depicts her husband as the front pattern and she should be in the back pattern; she was struggling under the pressure to continue marriage relationship with him, or she should divorce. When the curtain waves by the wind, her intention also sways, sometimes faintly and perhaps occasionally violently. Then, Else begins to question John’s unfaithful, and the suspicious annoys her to have hallucinations of many women’s shadows from the curtain. Next, she symbolize how she suffers in her marriage by the curtain, toadstools are painted as if it is in joint and shape of strings in endless convolutions (771). From the expression, we sense she suffered under delusion around and around in her mind. Finally, she clinches to separate from him; she no longer feels John’s affection toward her. She mentions that “He pretended to be very loving and kind as if I couldn’t see though him” (773). End of the story, Else is gradually connecting these dots, and she decides to get out of his captive because she feels like the living