The Yellow Wallpaper Feminist Analysis

The short story of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman resembles misery of women in the 19th century. The story shows the mind of the wife, Jane, who is suffering from a disorder that she gained in the summer after having a baby. Women in this time are strained to a different way of living compared to the more dominant men. The husband John, never lets the wife express her feelings or object herself to him. John believes there is nothing wrong with her, that she is just “sick.” The wife does not want to tolerate his mistreatment, but decides to anyway. This is making the husband-wife relationship go downhill. The narrator's husband, John in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is crucially condescending towards his wife mainly because of her disorder, but this also reflects husband-wife relationship during …show more content…
Once they came into the house, they decide together where to pick there bedroom. The wife picks the upstairs, but John says there is not enough room to have them both stay together. He says “There is only one window and not room for two beds and no near room for him if he took another” (Gilman 656). John is being conceded and will not even stay in his room with his wife. It seems that he is just trying to show his love to her, but really does not have any for her anymore.
John wants to keep her in the room because he thinks she needs plenty of rest, but she also wants to stay in there because of the wallpaper. “Associating with her nervous illness, “imaginative power and habit of story making” he forces his wife into daily confinement by four walls whose paper described as ‘debased Romanesque’ is an omnipresent figuring of the artistic degeneration and psychic chaos she fears” (Johnson). John is putting her in this four wall room because he has an idea that she might be suffering from a mental illness. That is why he has imprisoned her in this