Point Of View Of The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author, wrote during the late 1800s. During the late 1800s, the rest cure was a popular form of treatment that was used predominantly on women. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator, Gilman’s main character, endures treatment for depression, this treatment is the rest cure. The narrator is an immensely imaginative woman, and an intuitive storyteller. During the narrators treatment her husband, John, controls her behavior and requires that she is to remain inactive for her treatment, which means absolutely no writing which was one of her best-loved diversions. However, the narrator feels that writing would be advantageous to her treatment, which leads her to commence …show more content…
This allows the reader to be aware of practically everything that the narrator is experiencing internally and externally. The first person point of view allows the reader to feel an intimate connection with the narrator. The first person point of view also allows for the reader to feel as if they are simultaneously experiencing what the narrator is experiencing. This point of view also allows the reader to develop an ideology of what a patient enduring the rest cure went through during treatment. The first person point of view in “The Yellow Wallpaper” produces a straightforward perspective for the …show more content…
So I will let alone and talk about the house.” (Gilman 581). Gilman is portraying the narrators opinion on what she thinks would be best for herself being overcome by John’s orders, to the point where John’s orders interfere with the narrators direct train of thought, her thought is cut off by her thought of what John says is the right thing to do. When she states that she will talk about the house, it shows that she would rather think about the house than her condition. This conveys the beginning point of the deterioration of the narrator’s sanity being