The Yellow Wallpaper In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman tells the sad story of a woman's downward spiral into depression and insanity while, becoming obsessed with Yellow Wallpaper. The setting is gothic taking place at a rundown vacation home in the country during the summer time; everything takes place primarily in one bedroom. The protagonist is a white, middle-aged, mentally unstable woman who suffers from depression. Whose suffering gives her insight into her and other women’s situation in society and marriage. Her husband, John, a doctor, a pragmatic, and the antagonist, suggests a getaway because he thinks that rest and fresh air might help cure his wife’s depression. Gilmore uses several literary strategies to communicate
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The author utilizes a storyteller who is not entirely competent, yet she is remarkably sane enough to make very compelling remarks regarding her situation as an abused woman. Although, at times she does minimize her complaints about feeling trapped and unhappy recognizing that the way she feels might be because of her nervous condition opposed to her husband being to blame. Still, it is almost impossible for the reader to ignore the fact that her husband’s treatment of her could be the problem. For instance, unintentional remarks such as, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage; “He is very attentive and caring, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.’ This kind of remarks about her relationship and marriage probably would not be taken seriously if used in a different context, but the narrator’s growing mental confusion makes these statements about John’s habit of being overprotective and oppressive impossible to ignore; especially as the narrator becomes more and more out of touch with reality. Causing the innocuous assertions discussed above to more likely be taken seriously. Another example, just after one of her more innocent comments about marriage, the narrator states in relevant quotes from the story, “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition". Although she says it
The author utilizes a storyteller who is not entirely competent, yet she is remarkably sane enough to make very compelling remarks regarding her situation as an abused woman. Although, at times she does minimize her complaints about feeling trapped and unhappy recognizing that the way she feels might be because of her nervous condition opposed to her husband being to blame. Still, it is almost impossible for the reader to ignore the fact that her husband’s treatment of her could be the problem. For instance, unintentional remarks such as, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage; “He is very attentive and caring, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.’ This kind of remarks about her relationship and marriage probably would not be taken seriously if used in a different context, but the narrator’s growing mental confusion makes these statements about John’s habit of being overprotective and oppressive impossible to ignore; especially as the narrator becomes more and more out of touch with reality. Causing the innocuous assertions discussed above to more likely be taken seriously. Another example, just after one of her more innocent comments about marriage, the narrator states in relevant quotes from the story, “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition". Although she says it