This first person narrator describes the present tense of her situation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Trapped in a world of pre-feminism upheaval, where the notion of her sanity is never questioned--only defined by the authoritative men in her life i.e. her husband and brother. The yellow wallpaper, mentioned in this story, symbolizes the confinements of her life--the imprisonment of her own mind. But she forced a recognition of change, she saw it in the moonlight and various changing light. This unreliable narrator construed a life that is left to be desired; and her outlet to sanity is held in the words that she writes, and the peeling of the paper.
The narrator personifies the yellow wallpaper, to make sense of her
The narrator personifies the yellow wallpaper, to make sense of her