Postpartum Depression In The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an intriguing story that is told from the first person narrator point of view, describes the insanity of a depress women. Who was held in a nursery room of an old mansion due to her depression and mental illness. As the narrator portrays the story in the Victorian era, when women were no allowed to express their feelings, the women 's mind perceived horror fantasies and created a feeling of a gothic horror setting. The main character who pertained anonymous, was diagnosed by her husband of a nervous condition, which most probable was postpartum depression. However, back then postpartum depression was not yet discovered. Her husband John, who was also her doctor, felt the need to take …show more content…
She encounters that the yellow wall paper has an indistinct smell, not good nor bad, but is a smell that follows her throughout the house, the smell penetrates her hair and wakes her up at night. She even had a macabre idea: "Seriously of burning the house - to reach the smell." (pg.317) . She got extremely invigorated to figure out what was behind that pattern, the pattern that she would see clearer every day. She saw a woman creeping out behind that pattern. Every night she experience different observations of the wallpaper especially when the light seem to manipulate the change patterns. Once the moonlight hit the wallpaper the pattern suddenly becomes a set of bars and in which a lady is trapped and suddenly starts shaking the bars back and forth. Sometimes she thinks there are a lot of women trying to creep out and sometimes she would see only one woman rapidly crawling around the paper, " Then in the very bright spots she keep still, and in the very shady spots she just takes a hold of the bars and shakes them hard" (pg.317) . She mentions that she has seen the lady from the wallpaper trying to climb out the triangle shapes, but she can 't because she is trapped. However, as daylight takes place, she states that she has "privately" seen the lady creep out, creeping along the shaded lane around the gardens and hiding under the blackberry vines. The protagonist mentions "I …show more content…
Locking her in a mansion and forbidding her to be herself caused this poor women to loosed her mind in a fantasy world. As her feelings and thoughts were trapped within her, she created a horror and depict setting in her mind. The form of how she describes the yellow wallpaper of the nursery room, where she supposedly sees a lady trying to creep out of it and escapes, then questioning herself if the lady came out of the bars the way she did. The form of how she portray the story using her imaginary thoughts created a terrifying story and unbelievable