'A Woman's Life In The Yellow Wallpaper'

After reading The Yellow Wallpaper and the narrator’s description of her final day in the house, I viewed her conclusion as more of a tragedy, but also a kind of triumph over John and Jenny. In the beginning of the story, the narrator and her husband visit a mansion for the summer. She finds it unusual that they are able to afford a fancy place like this (Levine 486). Meanwhile, the narrator mentions that she believes she is sick and with her husband being a physician, she tells him how she is feeling and he brushes her off and tells her that she is not sick. “He assures their friends and family that there is nothing wrong with her but temporary nervous depression, which is a slight hysterical tendency” (486). She seems to think that if they would just allow her …show more content…
The room had several characteristics such as “windows that were barred for little children, and there had been things placed into the walls” (487). The wallpaper had been “stripped off and had patches all around it” (487). The narrator had “never seen such horrible paper in her life” (487). During the time that she had to stay in the room with the yellow wallpaper, she became delusional and began hallucinating about some women trying to escape from behind the yellow wallpaper (489). This began her obsession with the wallpaper and she felt the need to try and help the women. She sees the woman shaking the bars at night and sneaking around during the day. The wallpaper begins to take over the narrator’s thoughts and she becomes obsessed to the point where she felt she needed to hide her obsession with the wallpaper (490). She did not want anyone near the wallpaper but herself because she wanted to examine it on her own. The narrator does suspect that John and Jenny have noticed her obsession with the wallpaper and wants to now destroy the wallpaper once and for all