The “Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from post-partum depression which leads to her being isolated in her room that drives her insane. The “Yellow Wallpaper” that she hated so much became a significant symbol. A symbol of the domestic life that trapped so many women back then. The “Yellow Wallpaper” also represented the structure of her family. One of the points of the story is to show women struggling with their individualities during her time period. It shows how women were denied their freedom. The story focuses on her feelings and perceptions. The narrator’s identity was supposed to be a wife who does wife duties such as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids. Back then women were expected to be the background of
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She grew obsessed with the wallpaper that she hated so much. The room was significant to a prison because it had “barred windows for little children and rings and things in the walls” (Gilman) the room is much like a prison. Around night time when the sun went down, and the moon appeared, the moonlight became bars. The narrator thinks she smells the wallpaper throughout the house and outside. She does not want anyone near the wallpaper, so when she found a smudge on the it, she freaked out running around the room. She wanted to free the woman trapped inside of the wallpaper, so she tried snatching it all off the wall. She had a child that she never gets to see or play with. the reason she feels trapped is because she has a voice, but her husband does not listen to her. As her mental state declines, she feels like the woman in the wallpaper is trying to get out, just like she …show more content…
In the story when she described the room she said it was a strange mark around the periphery of the room, she thinks it could have been from someone else’s crawling trying to escape. In the beginning she thought it was another woman, so she wanted to prove to her husband that she could capture her. She became frustrated, but she could not jump out the window because it had bars. John fainted because he thought his cure worked, but in reality, she was in a bad condition. Instead of her helping him up, she kept creeping around the room. She was free once she destroyed the hideous yellow wallpaper off the
She grew obsessed with the wallpaper that she hated so much. The room was significant to a prison because it had “barred windows for little children and rings and things in the walls” (Gilman) the room is much like a prison. Around night time when the sun went down, and the moon appeared, the moonlight became bars. The narrator thinks she smells the wallpaper throughout the house and outside. She does not want anyone near the wallpaper, so when she found a smudge on the it, she freaked out running around the room. She wanted to free the woman trapped inside of the wallpaper, so she tried snatching it all off the wall. She had a child that she never gets to see or play with. the reason she feels trapped is because she has a voice, but her husband does not listen to her. As her mental state declines, she feels like the woman in the wallpaper is trying to get out, just like she …show more content…
In the story when she described the room she said it was a strange mark around the periphery of the room, she thinks it could have been from someone else’s crawling trying to escape. In the beginning she thought it was another woman, so she wanted to prove to her husband that she could capture her. She became frustrated, but she could not jump out the window because it had bars. John fainted because he thought his cure worked, but in reality, she was in a bad condition. Instead of her helping him up, she kept creeping around the room. She was free once she destroyed the hideous yellow wallpaper off the