Everyday we conform to society and do what is expected of us. In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the unnamed author who might be known as Jane had to conform in more ways than one, but also took a stand at times. She suffered from depression. For many years society has a hard time accepting mental illness especially in love ones. Jane was forced to live in a symbolic bubble that family expected and figured was right for her. Does its helps or makes the situation worst to conform to other people's reality? No it does not! The story tells of an unnamed writer that pours her heart to her diary she was ordered not to have due to the treatment. She was suffering from a mental illness after recently have a child that perhaps could
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The wallpaper is not just any paper, but instead symbolizes an escape, a understanding, a look inside herself. With all the desperation to be free, she decided to free the woman she sees trapped in the wallpaper. She begins to start tearing away the wallpaper convincing herself she was once trapped behind there. She then became the woman in the wallpaper. Confinement has drove her to complete insanity. “I don't like to look out of the windows even, there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?” Said jane. She then started to creep on the floor, believing she was a woman who was being trapped behind the wallpaper who has now escaped and gaining her freedom from not just John, the husband, but also from Jane. When her husband entered the room, Jane was crawling on the floor. "For God's sake, what are you doing! " Said John, as he tried to figure out what was going on with his wife. She explained to him she have got out of the wallpaper and pull it off the wall so she cannot be placed back in. John fainted and Jane stepped over him freeing herself of his
The wallpaper is not just any paper, but instead symbolizes an escape, a understanding, a look inside herself. With all the desperation to be free, she decided to free the woman she sees trapped in the wallpaper. She begins to start tearing away the wallpaper convincing herself she was once trapped behind there. She then became the woman in the wallpaper. Confinement has drove her to complete insanity. “I don't like to look out of the windows even, there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?” Said jane. She then started to creep on the floor, believing she was a woman who was being trapped behind the wallpaper who has now escaped and gaining her freedom from not just John, the husband, but also from Jane. When her husband entered the room, Jane was crawling on the floor. "For God's sake, what are you doing! " Said John, as he tried to figure out what was going on with his wife. She explained to him she have got out of the wallpaper and pull it off the wall so she cannot be placed back in. John fainted and Jane stepped over him freeing herself of his