Leaving a person with depression in a lonely house, with very few people is deleterious for the person. Depression can cause a person to breakdown to a point where the individual starts doubting about her health and her thoughts as well as the other people’s thoughts. To prevent a breakdown from occurring, people around them need to be very cautious and give the affected one freedom. This caution is not taken within the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. As a consequence the affected character, the narrator, has a mental breakdown. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman demonstrates reasons that caused the narrator`s breakdown. One is the wallpaper in her bedroom. Second, is her imprisonment from the outside world. Third, is her lack of control over everyday activities. Last, is the boredom that is caused by her isolation and imprisonment. There are many other causes that lead to the narrator to breakdown, but these are the main ones.
The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a nervous event that hurts her throughout the story. Towards the end many factors make it worse for her, like the wallpaper that is in her room. Her room was first a nursery and …show more content…
Her lack of control and her imprisonment added more boredom to her day. Being imprisoned meant that she had no contact with people “and [she was] alone” (772). She cannot read, write or visit family members and “of course [she could not] do a thing” (770). Towards her breakdown she gets lazy and admits that she really has a nervous depression called hysteria. The narrator states that “half of the time now [she is] awfully lazy and [she] lie[s] down ever so much” (772). She starts to let the depression, that she does not have but others make her believe that, kick in rather than fighting it. Being bored makes her breakdown faster than just having lack of control and the wallpaper put
The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a nervous event that hurts her throughout the story. Towards the end many factors make it worse for her, like the wallpaper that is in her room. Her room was first a nursery and …show more content…
Her lack of control and her imprisonment added more boredom to her day. Being imprisoned meant that she had no contact with people “and [she was] alone” (772). She cannot read, write or visit family members and “of course [she could not] do a thing” (770). Towards her breakdown she gets lazy and admits that she really has a nervous depression called hysteria. The narrator states that “half of the time now [she is] awfully lazy and [she] lie[s] down ever so much” (772). She starts to let the depression, that she does not have but others make her believe that, kick in rather than fighting it. Being bored makes her breakdown faster than just having lack of control and the wallpaper put