“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman is a story of a woman with a wild imagination as well as a sufferer of post-partum depression. Her husband Jon takes her to another house, to “get better” from her diagnosis of what he believes is hysteria. While she is there she explains her life through a series of journal entries that discuss the downward spiral of the narrator’s experience during the time she is at this house. Throughout her diary there are examples of symbolism, Jon’s treatment towards his wife, and most importantly the significance of the famous yellow wallpaper.
Throughout the story we encounter many forms of symbolism including the narrators desire to write and the fear of what she doesn’t yet know. As you read you will notice how the narrator only writes when Jon is not home because, she is not allowed to write in order for her sickness to go away sooner. Even though she isn’t allowed to write, she does it anyways because she believes it would do her good although, it does make her very tired. She says “I did write awhile in spite of them; but it does …show more content…
As the days go on she begins to form an obsession with this yellow wallpaper in her room. She keeps looking at it in disgust and portraying it to be the most hideous thing she has ever seen when she says “The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. (Gilman 471). “This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had on me” (Gilman 472). She is nervous because she cannot see her own baby as a result of what we know today as post-partum depression. With a result of that disease you get nervous and depressed which would be the whole reason that she starts to see things inside the
Throughout the story we encounter many forms of symbolism including the narrators desire to write and the fear of what she doesn’t yet know. As you read you will notice how the narrator only writes when Jon is not home because, she is not allowed to write in order for her sickness to go away sooner. Even though she isn’t allowed to write, she does it anyways because she believes it would do her good although, it does make her very tired. She says “I did write awhile in spite of them; but it does …show more content…
As the days go on she begins to form an obsession with this yellow wallpaper in her room. She keeps looking at it in disgust and portraying it to be the most hideous thing she has ever seen when she says “The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. (Gilman 471). “This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had on me” (Gilman 472). She is nervous because she cannot see her own baby as a result of what we know today as post-partum depression. With a result of that disease you get nervous and depressed which would be the whole reason that she starts to see things inside the