Summary Of Charlotte Perkin Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

For one to gain symptoms and to be diagnosed with any sort of mental disorder, that can preventing one form having a good time, and being able to express yourself is unimaginable. With that, there are no promises that one can recover or be cured from the mental disorder that they are diagnosed with. However the individual diagnosed with the mental disorder is told to obey all orders that are given to them by their doctor, as well as being put in a position where if the patient chooses to go on with their regular daily routine, they will then be prescribed into a undesirable cure. Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s well-known short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” begins with the central character that speaks in a first person perspective about her …show more content…
Charlotte Perkin Gilman uses the character as a literary device to put across the lack of communication between the storyteller, her spouse, and the society she is in. Throughout the story, the readers are revealed the result of a woman who is diagnosed with depression, hysteria, and nervousness, as well as her being anxious and unorganized with her thoughts. She then later becomes infatuated with the yellow wallpaper that is in her bedroom. Her infatuation and her brain are able to persuade her that there are individuals that are to be unseen behind the yellow wallpaper in her room. The wife also hides her desire of writing or doing something artistic due to her partner who claims it would relapse her case. Likewise, this short story also represents a married individual’s statement to be given permission to do things, in which the wife has been forbidden to do due to her partner and the doctors in her society for the sake of “healing her”. A theme that is shown through out this story is communication, or in this case lack of it. Hence the communication that is going wrong is being portrayed through the main character of the story, which is the