Characters in every story obviously play a huge part in the development of other characters and of the plot itself; in Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, her characters especially play major roles in the evolution of Gilman’s story. Each represents an aspect of the kind of society that the narrator lived in during this time and they all gave the main character expectations for herself that she felt she needed to live up to to become a good wife or even a good woman. Furthermore, those characters and even their expectations led to the worsening of the narrator’s depression and some even helped prod her into that final descent into insanity. This story took place during a time when a wife epitomized the term “submissive”. Wives
…show more content…
The narrator knew that her relationship with the Wallpaper was not healthy or normal, and this most likely led to her condition getting worse and worse. She was not able to accept her illness because not one single living person throughout the story would listen to her or believe that she was truly seeing things, and by the end of the story when John and his sister Jennie finally start to believe something is truly long and try figuring out what it is about the Wallpaper that the narrator was so entranced by, it was much too …show more content…
The narrator was faced, day after day, with expectations, loneliness, and boredom. Her husband did not allow his wife to visit her friends or even get a hobby while at the house. “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious” (Gilman 771). He himself was often gone from his wife, for reasons up to debate. He claimed that he was working, but the narrator must have wondered if that was what he was really doing, especially at night. Throughout the story, the readers only see her obsession with the Wallpaper, but who’s to say she didn’t have other things to obsess about during her time alone? Like the fact that her husband may be cheating on her or that no one tried to contact her during her time at the house. The narrator has many things to focus her schizophrenic nature upon, and the characters in The Yellow Wallpaper in no way eased up her
The narrator knew that her relationship with the Wallpaper was not healthy or normal, and this most likely led to her condition getting worse and worse. She was not able to accept her illness because not one single living person throughout the story would listen to her or believe that she was truly seeing things, and by the end of the story when John and his sister Jennie finally start to believe something is truly long and try figuring out what it is about the Wallpaper that the narrator was so entranced by, it was much too …show more content…
The narrator was faced, day after day, with expectations, loneliness, and boredom. Her husband did not allow his wife to visit her friends or even get a hobby while at the house. “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious” (Gilman 771). He himself was often gone from his wife, for reasons up to debate. He claimed that he was working, but the narrator must have wondered if that was what he was really doing, especially at night. Throughout the story, the readers only see her obsession with the Wallpaper, but who’s to say she didn’t have other things to obsess about during her time alone? Like the fact that her husband may be cheating on her or that no one tried to contact her during her time at the house. The narrator has many things to focus her schizophrenic nature upon, and the characters in The Yellow Wallpaper in no way eased up her