The woman behind the wallpaper
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in the summer of late nineteenth century. The narrator of the story, who suffers from depression, and her husband decide to spend their summer in an ancestral kind of house, which also meant for the narrator to rest from her “nervous depression.” Within the house, there was an upstairs room where the narrator hates the most. The setting of the home, particularly the upstairs room, worsens the main character’s mental disorder and makes her insane.
As they move to the house, the main character seems to feel that there is something queer about the place especially this particular room. She begins and describes the house as “A colonial …show more content…
She becomes more obsesses with the wallpaper and begins to feel that the "paper looks to [her] as if it knew what a vicious influence it had" (310). She puts aside everything that tosses her in the room include “the floor [that] scratched and gouged and splintered … and this great heavy bed which is all [they] found in the room, looks as if it had been through the wars … [she does not] mine it a bit, only the paper” (311). She believes that “this wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shades … but in the places where it isn’t faded … [she] can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (311). “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wall paper” (312). The setting again connects to the narrator’s feelings and emotions, her aversion to the wallpaper causes her to be focus and more obsessed with it, and this aversion turns at the end to fondness. As the days goes by, the patterns of the wallpaper takes control of her mind, she seeks to find the purpose behind this wallpaper. She believes that “there are things in that paper that nobody knows but [her]” (314). The setting starts to worsen her mental disorder, as the shapes behind the pattern gets clearer every day; she starts to imagine “a woman stooping down and creeping …show more content…
From the start, the narrator has described every corner in the room, she focused the most on the wallpaper and who it frightened her. And as the story continues, she figures out that there is a woman behind the paper, and starts to make a connection between herself and this woman. The woman seeks for freedom from the paper, and the narrator herself seeks for a freedom from the home and her husband, which makes her ,at the end, hopelessly
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in the summer of late nineteenth century. The narrator of the story, who suffers from depression, and her husband decide to spend their summer in an ancestral kind of house, which also meant for the narrator to rest from her “nervous depression.” Within the house, there was an upstairs room where the narrator hates the most. The setting of the home, particularly the upstairs room, worsens the main character’s mental disorder and makes her insane.
As they move to the house, the main character seems to feel that there is something queer about the place especially this particular room. She begins and describes the house as “A colonial …show more content…
She becomes more obsesses with the wallpaper and begins to feel that the "paper looks to [her] as if it knew what a vicious influence it had" (310). She puts aside everything that tosses her in the room include “the floor [that] scratched and gouged and splintered … and this great heavy bed which is all [they] found in the room, looks as if it had been through the wars … [she does not] mine it a bit, only the paper” (311). She believes that “this wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shades … but in the places where it isn’t faded … [she] can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (311). “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wall paper” (312). The setting again connects to the narrator’s feelings and emotions, her aversion to the wallpaper causes her to be focus and more obsessed with it, and this aversion turns at the end to fondness. As the days goes by, the patterns of the wallpaper takes control of her mind, she seeks to find the purpose behind this wallpaper. She believes that “there are things in that paper that nobody knows but [her]” (314). The setting starts to worsen her mental disorder, as the shapes behind the pattern gets clearer every day; she starts to imagine “a woman stooping down and creeping …show more content…
From the start, the narrator has described every corner in the room, she focused the most on the wallpaper and who it frightened her. And as the story continues, she figures out that there is a woman behind the paper, and starts to make a connection between herself and this woman. The woman seeks for freedom from the paper, and the narrator herself seeks for a freedom from the home and her husband, which makes her ,at the end, hopelessly