The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gillman is an allegory to the oppression of women during the 19th century in America. She includes issues such as lack control a woman has on her health made by the society norms and the oppressive force dominant men.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator speaks as a first person that suffers from “slight hysterical tendencies” or temporary nervous depression known today as post-partum depression. Her misunderstanding husband -a physician- had moved with her for the summer to a colonial mansion away from the city. He believes it is in her best interest to go on a “rest cure” after the birth of their child. She tells the reader that she feels there is “something queer about it( the house)”. They decide to move upstairs in a room; however, the narrator assumed it was a nursery. It served as their bedroom since it had a number of windows …show more content…
The narrator then locks herself in the room and begins to remove the patterns off the wall, believing she is freeing the woman figure she has been imagining behind it. Her husband, John, comes home after. His wife tells him that she is unable to open the door, that the key is masked under a pot in the garden. Once John finally opens the door, the narrator tells him, “ I’ve got out at last. In spite of you and Jane and I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t, you can’t put me back”. I perceived that section in the novel as the wife believing that she has been healed. She had built a voice of her own and finally discovered that she could stand up for herself. Throughout the story, we notice a shift in her tone throughout her writing. The feeling of frustration and determination in her words demonstrates how she is eager to free the woman behind the wallpaper (herself) from the imprisonment she is in. At last, she confesses to her husband how she has “got out”, causing her husband to
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator speaks as a first person that suffers from “slight hysterical tendencies” or temporary nervous depression known today as post-partum depression. Her misunderstanding husband -a physician- had moved with her for the summer to a colonial mansion away from the city. He believes it is in her best interest to go on a “rest cure” after the birth of their child. She tells the reader that she feels there is “something queer about it( the house)”. They decide to move upstairs in a room; however, the narrator assumed it was a nursery. It served as their bedroom since it had a number of windows …show more content…
The narrator then locks herself in the room and begins to remove the patterns off the wall, believing she is freeing the woman figure she has been imagining behind it. Her husband, John, comes home after. His wife tells him that she is unable to open the door, that the key is masked under a pot in the garden. Once John finally opens the door, the narrator tells him, “ I’ve got out at last. In spite of you and Jane and I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t, you can’t put me back”. I perceived that section in the novel as the wife believing that she has been healed. She had built a voice of her own and finally discovered that she could stand up for herself. Throughout the story, we notice a shift in her tone throughout her writing. The feeling of frustration and determination in her words demonstrates how she is eager to free the woman behind the wallpaper (herself) from the imprisonment she is in. At last, she confesses to her husband how she has “got out”, causing her husband to