John's Character Development In The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is an interesting read with major character development. John’s wife also known as the narrator, is experiencing realistic hallucinations. One of the doctor’s is her husband and he mocks the situation of her disease. Character development is strengthened and weakened by the narrator showing the wife’s emotions, behavior, and her change in personality. “John is practical in the extreme” (216). This quote demonstrates the start of her talking about her husband when situations with her disease come up. John is not skeptical about it, he usually just brushes it off, like it is nothing. The narrator cannot confide to her husband due to him being unaware of what the disease is doing to her. She starts to confide in a journal, in which her husband does not know about until later. In the journal, she starts to talk about the house and one room in particular, which has “...sprawling flamboyant patterns…color is repellent…an unclean yellow” (217-218). The room is a nursery and at first, she hates the …show more content…
“Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer everyday” (222). This quote is saying that the more time she looks at the wall, the more a solution will arise. She is completely obsessed and goes into the room when John is asleep. In doing so, she starts to see things move in the wallpaper. She has discovered a woman in the wallpaper and she starts to see different things happen to not only one, but many women in the wallpaper. Though, there is only one woman that comes out of the paper and only the narrator can see her. She begins ripping the paper off the wall, in an effort to get the girl out, she has little time to rip it off for the woman to be free. Although, the narrator trying so hard to get the woman out, it was just her seeing herself in the wallpaper. The wallpaper is a sign for it being John and she is in the wall for which she can never be let out until