The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is a short story based in 19th century America. In this story Stetson, through a young mother, portrays the negative effects of patriarchal society as well as the maltreatment of women by physicians in regards to anxiety and depression. Stetson presents the story to the audience through a first person point of view with the narrator being the protagonist. The narrator catalogues her journal entries, which records her arrival to the mansion as well as her subsequent dismal descent into insanity. Because of the narrator’s paucity of mental stimulation, suppressed creativity, and lack of self-worth, the Narrator goes insane. First, the suppression of the narrator’s creativity imposed upon her
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Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing” (Stetson 650). Thus, this compels her to write in secret, which only increases the exhaustion that consumes her …show more content…
Within the story, the audience is privy to the narrator’s feelings and thoughts in regards to her disdain for the bedroom with the yellow wallpaper, and how she desires to escape from the room as well as the mansion. However, she is confined to the mansion and the room for the entire three month period, and John is steadfast in his desire for her to remain there, despite her frequent pleas to leave. For example, the narrator tells the audience of a desperate plea she made to John three weeks before they were to abdicate the mansion, in which she said, “I told him that I really was not gaining here, and that I wished he would take me away” (Stetson 652). However, immediately following this desperate plea, John rebutted, “ Our lease will be up in three weeks, and I can’t see how to leave before” (Stetson 652). Subsequently, this causes the narrator to resign her fight to leave, and leads to her drifting further from reality and fixating more and more on the yellow wallpaper. In addition to her confinement in the mansion, the narrator is also stripped of her independence. As part of her treatment, John prescribes her a strict schedule to adhere to everyday, in addition to the tonics and medication that already constitutes her daily regimen (Stetson 648). John’s main focus in this daily prescription is that the
Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing” (Stetson 650). Thus, this compels her to write in secret, which only increases the exhaustion that consumes her …show more content…
Within the story, the audience is privy to the narrator’s feelings and thoughts in regards to her disdain for the bedroom with the yellow wallpaper, and how she desires to escape from the room as well as the mansion. However, she is confined to the mansion and the room for the entire three month period, and John is steadfast in his desire for her to remain there, despite her frequent pleas to leave. For example, the narrator tells the audience of a desperate plea she made to John three weeks before they were to abdicate the mansion, in which she said, “I told him that I really was not gaining here, and that I wished he would take me away” (Stetson 652). However, immediately following this desperate plea, John rebutted, “ Our lease will be up in three weeks, and I can’t see how to leave before” (Stetson 652). Subsequently, this causes the narrator to resign her fight to leave, and leads to her drifting further from reality and fixating more and more on the yellow wallpaper. In addition to her confinement in the mansion, the narrator is also stripped of her independence. As part of her treatment, John prescribes her a strict schedule to adhere to everyday, in addition to the tonics and medication that already constitutes her daily regimen (Stetson 648). John’s main focus in this daily prescription is that the