Sam Brychta
9/21/2014
2A
The Yellow Wallpaper
In the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the tangible setting, emphasizes the intangible feelings expressed by the characters. The narrators somewhat reserved mental state does contribute to this place seeming to have a gloomy sad feeling behind it. The author first sees the outside of the house and already has a pessimistic opinion on it, describing the house as being similar to a haunted mansion. She also reveals that “[The house] is quite alone standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners …show more content…
She grows to love the wallpaper, showing a change in her character. She depicts the wallpaper as “stripped off—the paper—in great patches”. This demonstrates that the wallpaper needs attention and care for it, just like the narrator from her husband. The wallpaper mirrors the women, showing that it’s flawed and describes the narrators’ mental state. She notices the wallpaper having a pattern to it when she is in the room at night. The narrator then obsesses over the wallpaper seeing it as a text she must decipher. She then notices the text as a desperate woman, craving attention of anyone. This reflecting the narrator silently screaming for help from her husband or anyone in her …show more content…
This house symbolizes the narrator in many different ways; with her being trapped under the oppression of her husband and men in general of this time. It also shows the women craving attention from her husband to understand her condition completely, just like the women in the wallpaper craving anyone’s attention. Gilman cunningly relates the setting of this story to many women of her time in relating the subjugation of woman of this time and the agony that women had to face in everyday life, with men controlling
9/21/2014
2A
The Yellow Wallpaper
In the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the tangible setting, emphasizes the intangible feelings expressed by the characters. The narrators somewhat reserved mental state does contribute to this place seeming to have a gloomy sad feeling behind it. The author first sees the outside of the house and already has a pessimistic opinion on it, describing the house as being similar to a haunted mansion. She also reveals that “[The house] is quite alone standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners …show more content…
She grows to love the wallpaper, showing a change in her character. She depicts the wallpaper as “stripped off—the paper—in great patches”. This demonstrates that the wallpaper needs attention and care for it, just like the narrator from her husband. The wallpaper mirrors the women, showing that it’s flawed and describes the narrators’ mental state. She notices the wallpaper having a pattern to it when she is in the room at night. The narrator then obsesses over the wallpaper seeing it as a text she must decipher. She then notices the text as a desperate woman, craving attention of anyone. This reflecting the narrator silently screaming for help from her husband or anyone in her …show more content…
This house symbolizes the narrator in many different ways; with her being trapped under the oppression of her husband and men in general of this time. It also shows the women craving attention from her husband to understand her condition completely, just like the women in the wallpaper craving anyone’s attention. Gilman cunningly relates the setting of this story to many women of her time in relating the subjugation of woman of this time and the agony that women had to face in everyday life, with men controlling