“The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an intimate short story written in journal-style first person. The woman writes about her experiences and feelings in her temporary home for the next three months while her doctor-husband treats her for her “nervous condition”. As the story begins, she talks about her husband who wants her to rest and not to do any work or writing as a method to cure her condition. To distract her thoughts from her illness, she marvels at the beauty and secrecy of the mansion by describing the layout of the court and the beautiful garden. She writes a great deal about her bedroom and is immediately in disgust by the color of the wallpaper. She writes about her thoughts in a diary day by day as she closely
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It gives the reader a more proactive way of visualizing and feeling specifically what the character experiences throughout the story, helping to draw a more personal connection. The story of the woman is written as an autobiography as said by Mary Dunn, “She describes the treatment of women during a rest cure prescribed for nervous disorders by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell” (par. 1). In an indirect way she depicts her mental state as it diminishes over time and her plead for liberation towards the end. She expresses this in several ways, over time you can begin to see the obstruction of the way she writes in her journal. Her sentences start out strong, and have a happy tone to them, “There comes John, and I must put this away, - he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman87). She ends her writing with full sentences expressing everything she sees in full detail, but over time her sentences become short, “I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able” (Gilman91). She seems to have an exhausted pattern of writing, as though she is lost and irritable. By focusing on the way she writes her entries the reader can visualize the way her mood changes and how she becomes obsessed over little things. The authors choice of words for her wanting liberation set a perfect way of describing how she really feels subconsciously as she talks about the woman in the wall …show more content…
The importance of this type of language is to show why the character changes as time progresses. The woman immediately is disgusted by the wallpaper in the room in which she will be staying for the time being, she expresses it as “ The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight” (Gilman 87). The author reveals her distaste for the room by focusing on the subject that surrounds the story, the yellow wallpaper. The reader is able to visualize how the wallpaper looks and changes as the day goes by creating a connection to the characters feelings. She talks more about the room for readers to understand why she became insane being told to stay in that room for so long by her husband, “Then the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered” (Gilman 89). As her condition worsens, and her sanity decays she starts to smell odd things in the room. She connects the smells to the wallpaper as a way to describe the disgust of it, “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell” (Gilman96). The connection is to express to the reader how she perceives the scent, by connecting it to a subject that she describes throughout the story in detail. She focuses on the negativity of the home and more specific the room, as she becomes sick over the months. The author gives
It gives the reader a more proactive way of visualizing and feeling specifically what the character experiences throughout the story, helping to draw a more personal connection. The story of the woman is written as an autobiography as said by Mary Dunn, “She describes the treatment of women during a rest cure prescribed for nervous disorders by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell” (par. 1). In an indirect way she depicts her mental state as it diminishes over time and her plead for liberation towards the end. She expresses this in several ways, over time you can begin to see the obstruction of the way she writes in her journal. Her sentences start out strong, and have a happy tone to them, “There comes John, and I must put this away, - he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman87). She ends her writing with full sentences expressing everything she sees in full detail, but over time her sentences become short, “I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able” (Gilman91). She seems to have an exhausted pattern of writing, as though she is lost and irritable. By focusing on the way she writes her entries the reader can visualize the way her mood changes and how she becomes obsessed over little things. The authors choice of words for her wanting liberation set a perfect way of describing how she really feels subconsciously as she talks about the woman in the wall …show more content…
The importance of this type of language is to show why the character changes as time progresses. The woman immediately is disgusted by the wallpaper in the room in which she will be staying for the time being, she expresses it as “ The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight” (Gilman 87). The author reveals her distaste for the room by focusing on the subject that surrounds the story, the yellow wallpaper. The reader is able to visualize how the wallpaper looks and changes as the day goes by creating a connection to the characters feelings. She talks more about the room for readers to understand why she became insane being told to stay in that room for so long by her husband, “Then the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered” (Gilman 89). As her condition worsens, and her sanity decays she starts to smell odd things in the room. She connects the smells to the wallpaper as a way to describe the disgust of it, “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell” (Gilman96). The connection is to express to the reader how she perceives the scent, by connecting it to a subject that she describes throughout the story in detail. She focuses on the negativity of the home and more specific the room, as she becomes sick over the months. The author gives