The Role Of The Narrator In The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Yellow Wallpaper” written by the fabulous Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story based on a narrators experience in this room that is surrounded with walls covered by yellow wallpaper (“Depression”). During this tale the reader is introduced to the knowledge of the narrators’ family, she has a husband who is a physician, a sister-in law who cares and cleans the house, and a newborn (Gilman Perkins 315). For the length that the story takes place, the narrator stays in this room throughout the stories entirety, and becomes fancied by the yellow wallpaper that begins to draw readers into thinking she examines an insane and unhealthy lifestyle. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is a new mother who stays away from her child the entire length of time that she is in the house for the reason that her husband …show more content…
The narrator is in this room surrounded with walls covered in hideous yellow wallpaper. Later in the narrative the reader learns the real problem begins to unravel when the narrator instead sees herself behind this sheet of yellow wallpaper and finds this to be her escape from the judgement made upon her by her husband (“Madwoman in the Attic: The Female Gothic in 19th Century Literature”). The reader will learn throughout the story that the narrator is a mother and does not tend to her newborn because she gets “so nervous” around the child and cannot be near it (Hume). But in actuality learns that the diagnosis made upon the narrator’s husband to keep the narrator away from the newborn is an excuse used by the narrator, because the narrator exemplifies hatred towards her family (Hume). “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a narrator who is bizarre and views herself that way, she cannot care for her child because she is seriously ill and is greatly believed to be at the end of the