All by Herself During the writing of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she goes to great depths and lengths to describe the young, upper-middle-class woman who is newly married to a physician named John and a mother yet a nameless narrator who has a character of what she describes herself as, “a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 64). How would one expect the personality and character of a woman who is sent to a quiet and empty house, by her husband, be? A character analysis of the narrator and wife of John, reveals throughout this writing her depression, how she overcomes it while she is being isolated from the world, and how she regains her freedom of thoughts and actions. The significance of the story explores the basic
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They’re both dissatisfied with what they see; they both believe that something else ought to be there, and they try to pretend it is there or to make it be there” (Frye 29). Although, the narrator believes she feels that someone is trapped in the yellow wallpaper and wanting to get out, such as she, in the beginning of the story, one starts to think that maybe the husband is doing what is needed to help his wife. Later, in this writing, the narrator says that if she doesn’t get better anytime soon she will be sent to Dr. Weir Mitchell who’s an American neurologist who advocates “rest cures” for nervous illnesses. But she mentions how she doesn’t want to go there because she’s had a friend who was taken to Dr. Weir Mitchell and he’s just like John and the narrator’s brother. Meanwhile, John is in town, the narrator finds a way to get out of the house even though she’s not supposed to, but still gets back on topic with the wallpaper, but why? While John is in town, she tries to tear down the wallpaper and hides it from her husband, but the wallpaper, the yellow wallpaper is what helped her. The woman stuck in the wallpaper is what helped her get through “an illness” that wasn’t an illness in the first place. Towards the end of the writing, the narrator says, “I’ve got out at last, despite you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back” (Gilman
They’re both dissatisfied with what they see; they both believe that something else ought to be there, and they try to pretend it is there or to make it be there” (Frye 29). Although, the narrator believes she feels that someone is trapped in the yellow wallpaper and wanting to get out, such as she, in the beginning of the story, one starts to think that maybe the husband is doing what is needed to help his wife. Later, in this writing, the narrator says that if she doesn’t get better anytime soon she will be sent to Dr. Weir Mitchell who’s an American neurologist who advocates “rest cures” for nervous illnesses. But she mentions how she doesn’t want to go there because she’s had a friend who was taken to Dr. Weir Mitchell and he’s just like John and the narrator’s brother. Meanwhile, John is in town, the narrator finds a way to get out of the house even though she’s not supposed to, but still gets back on topic with the wallpaper, but why? While John is in town, she tries to tear down the wallpaper and hides it from her husband, but the wallpaper, the yellow wallpaper is what helped her. The woman stuck in the wallpaper is what helped her get through “an illness” that wasn’t an illness in the first place. Towards the end of the writing, the narrator says, “I’ve got out at last, despite you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back” (Gilman