“The yellow wallpaper” essay In “The yellow wallpaper”, Gilman portrays the vision of a woman suffering from nervous depression leaving her helpless. Her husband firmly believes his decisions are appropriate for her getting well treatment. The disease spirals causing her to be constantly alone and forbidden to leave the bedroom according to her husband’s rules. This story allows readers to see, the annoyance of women during the 19th century. Women didn’t have a choice of being a wife or mother. Also, they were forbidden to express themselves or challenge oneself like men did during their time. Women in this time period were pushed into certain stereotypes, not allowing them to show their intelligence along with their creativity. Her physician,
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When she puts the pieces together, she understands the wallpaper is looking a lot like her own situation. The pattern plays a role in the story because her husband slowly decreases her time for creativity and writing, getting her more upset. Instead of being watched by the figure in the wallpaper, she pays attention to the details using it to help escape her situation. She describes the color being “repellent, almost revolting; a smothering unclean yellow” (23), describing her way of living life at the moment. Yellow is very unappealing towards her, reminding her of the negativity surrounding her. For example, when she says, “the color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing” (29), she allows the readers to see her frustration rise, feeling smothered from John. The color represents her illness symbolically, also shadowing the friction between sunlight verses moonlight. When she explains, “by moonlight-the moon shines in all night when there is a moon-I wouldn’t know it was the same paper” (29), she implies at night she sees a different image than in day. She feels stuck and smothered in the day, but the balance changes when night occurs. The sunlight is compatible towards John’s orders as in his schedule and way of control. In the sunlight, the women tend to be still, and fear of getting caught. At night, she becomes bold and gains the courage to not let her life be controlled by
When she puts the pieces together, she understands the wallpaper is looking a lot like her own situation. The pattern plays a role in the story because her husband slowly decreases her time for creativity and writing, getting her more upset. Instead of being watched by the figure in the wallpaper, she pays attention to the details using it to help escape her situation. She describes the color being “repellent, almost revolting; a smothering unclean yellow” (23), describing her way of living life at the moment. Yellow is very unappealing towards her, reminding her of the negativity surrounding her. For example, when she says, “the color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing” (29), she allows the readers to see her frustration rise, feeling smothered from John. The color represents her illness symbolically, also shadowing the friction between sunlight verses moonlight. When she explains, “by moonlight-the moon shines in all night when there is a moon-I wouldn’t know it was the same paper” (29), she implies at night she sees a different image than in day. She feels stuck and smothered in the day, but the balance changes when night occurs. The sunlight is compatible towards John’s orders as in his schedule and way of control. In the sunlight, the women tend to be still, and fear of getting caught. At night, she becomes bold and gains the courage to not let her life be controlled by