One may say that a woman’s work is never done. Many American women grow up with this embedded in their minds and feel it to be true Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1892 in the New England Magazine, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” argues that after being observed by a physician for severe and continuous nervous breakdowns and beyond, that not using the remnants of intelligence that remained left her near the borderline of utter mental ruin. Gilman successfully built her narratives in the short story, which was essentially intended to be a letter to the doctor that diagnosed her, by employing emotional appeals into a story exaggerating her feelings while unable to express her creativity, this effect is best created by the use of complex symbols,
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The title of the short story is named “The Yellow Wallpaper,” coming off as an important aspect in dire need of being inspected. Paula A. Treichler, a published scholar in “Feminist Issues in Literature” made the analysis of, “Disguised as an acceptable feminine topic (interest in decor), the yellow ' wallpaper comes to occupy the narrator 's entire reality. Finally, she rips it from the walls to reveal its real meaning. Unveiled, the yellow wallpaper is a metaphor for women 's discourse.” (Treichler, 61) The analysis tied together the objective that the yellow wallpaper is meant to be the barrier that is intended to be broken down before a woman can be free and liberated. It is thought that the post-partum depression put the narrator in full blown psychosis, which caused her to think there was a person behind the wall. Towards the end, when the narrator tore down the wallpaper, she realized that the person behind the wallpaper was none other than herself. The yellow wallpaper being torn down has been just like the reign of submission granted to her husband was demolished as she regained her back her intellectual …show more content…
The narrator sees through it and sees all that she can have which is also the same things as what she cannot have. The reason she cannot see the potential and her future is because of the sole reason that John put bars on the window, in an effort to keep her in. While truly looking at the aspects of the house, in an effort to make his wife feel better, John takes her to a mansion, which every symbol in that house represents her being trapped in her own body and mind. The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote to evoke the empathy of her doctor who put her on bed rest. Gilman clearly brought attention to women mental health issues that were addressed in 1970. Through the literary appeals, Charlotte Perkins Gilman used the correct symbols, themes and brought attention to societal norms all in one
The title of the short story is named “The Yellow Wallpaper,” coming off as an important aspect in dire need of being inspected. Paula A. Treichler, a published scholar in “Feminist Issues in Literature” made the analysis of, “Disguised as an acceptable feminine topic (interest in decor), the yellow ' wallpaper comes to occupy the narrator 's entire reality. Finally, she rips it from the walls to reveal its real meaning. Unveiled, the yellow wallpaper is a metaphor for women 's discourse.” (Treichler, 61) The analysis tied together the objective that the yellow wallpaper is meant to be the barrier that is intended to be broken down before a woman can be free and liberated. It is thought that the post-partum depression put the narrator in full blown psychosis, which caused her to think there was a person behind the wall. Towards the end, when the narrator tore down the wallpaper, she realized that the person behind the wallpaper was none other than herself. The yellow wallpaper being torn down has been just like the reign of submission granted to her husband was demolished as she regained her back her intellectual …show more content…
The narrator sees through it and sees all that she can have which is also the same things as what she cannot have. The reason she cannot see the potential and her future is because of the sole reason that John put bars on the window, in an effort to keep her in. While truly looking at the aspects of the house, in an effort to make his wife feel better, John takes her to a mansion, which every symbol in that house represents her being trapped in her own body and mind. The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote to evoke the empathy of her doctor who put her on bed rest. Gilman clearly brought attention to women mental health issues that were addressed in 1970. Through the literary appeals, Charlotte Perkins Gilman used the correct symbols, themes and brought attention to societal norms all in one