Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” for many different reasons. One reason was to state the results of rest care. Rest care may work in some situations but in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman states otherwise. Gilman was trying to prove that rest care was not a vital solution because it just made the woman more insane by what she was seeing in the wallpaper throughout the story.
At the beginning of the story, the woman just thinks the wallpaper is ugly and disturbing. Her mental state has not changed from when before they got to the house. The woman states, “There is something strange about this house -- I can feel it” (Gilman 316). This foreshadows that something later on in the story is going to happen because of the house. The woman likes going outside and seeing the garden. She says, “I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-boarded paths, and lined with long grape covered …show more content…
This tells the readers that her mental state has worsened. The result of the woman’s illness worsening was because of her being too limited in the things she was doing. “Mitchell's Rest Cure treatment were locking Gilman away in his Philadelphia sanitarium for a month, enforcing strict isolation, limiting intellectual stimulation to two hours a day, and forbidding her to touch pen, pencil, or paintbrush ever again.” This is also what the women in “The Yellow Wallpaper” went through. In the story, the husband did not want his wife writing even though the woman loved to write. The woman wrote anyways and she started writing about eyes and a woman in the wall. The woman writes, “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” She also writes, “I wish John would take me away from here” (Gilman 321). The woman knows that her illness will not get any better if she stays in that room because of the things she is seeing in the
At the beginning of the story, the woman just thinks the wallpaper is ugly and disturbing. Her mental state has not changed from when before they got to the house. The woman states, “There is something strange about this house -- I can feel it” (Gilman 316). This foreshadows that something later on in the story is going to happen because of the house. The woman likes going outside and seeing the garden. She says, “I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-boarded paths, and lined with long grape covered …show more content…
This tells the readers that her mental state has worsened. The result of the woman’s illness worsening was because of her being too limited in the things she was doing. “Mitchell's Rest Cure treatment were locking Gilman away in his Philadelphia sanitarium for a month, enforcing strict isolation, limiting intellectual stimulation to two hours a day, and forbidding her to touch pen, pencil, or paintbrush ever again.” This is also what the women in “The Yellow Wallpaper” went through. In the story, the husband did not want his wife writing even though the woman loved to write. The woman wrote anyways and she started writing about eyes and a woman in the wall. The woman writes, “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” She also writes, “I wish John would take me away from here” (Gilman 321). The woman knows that her illness will not get any better if she stays in that room because of the things she is seeing in the