“The Yellow Wallpaper” The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is unreliable, moves from one shift to another also being reliable; the narrator adds on to the story with the yellow wallpaper and identifying a woman trapped and the story would change dramatically if it were told by an omniscient narrator. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is unreliable and moves from one state to another also being reliable; lastly, in the end of the story the narrator continues on being an unreliable character. In the beginning of the story, the narrator reveals the sickness she is suffering from. “So I take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am
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In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is a limited narrator and if the narrator was omniscient we would know all the character’s thoughts besides her own. “There comes John, and I must put this away, he hates to have me write a word.” If this story were told by an omniscient narrator, John’s perspective of how he felt about her writing would be revealed. Throughout the story there is no actual known feeling of how John, only from the narrator’s perspective. “John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” The story would completely switch around if the narrator was an omniscient narrator, because John would reveal how he actually feels about his wife. In the ending of the story John faints out of shock; the story would switch around if it were told by an omniscient narrator. “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over every time.” If the narrator were an omniscient narrator we would have an actual idea on why john was shocked and fainted. The story would have a better ending to the story if we knew why the narrator continued to creep around
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is a limited narrator and if the narrator was omniscient we would know all the character’s thoughts besides her own. “There comes John, and I must put this away, he hates to have me write a word.” If this story were told by an omniscient narrator, John’s perspective of how he felt about her writing would be revealed. Throughout the story there is no actual known feeling of how John, only from the narrator’s perspective. “John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” The story would completely switch around if the narrator was an omniscient narrator, because John would reveal how he actually feels about his wife. In the ending of the story John faints out of shock; the story would switch around if it were told by an omniscient narrator. “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over every time.” If the narrator were an omniscient narrator we would have an actual idea on why john was shocked and fainted. The story would have a better ending to the story if we knew why the narrator continued to creep around