The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is told in first person by the narrator through her journal entries. The main character, who is the protagonist, is sent to a mansion due to an illness and her husband’s need to heal her. She is alone and stuck in her own mind, and creates these fantasies to try and overlook her reality.“The Yellow Wallpaper”, describes a woman who has been driven to insanity due to postpartum depression. However, due to her treatment, a time period full of women's inequality, and a husband who clearly is her oppressor, the narrator was not driven to insanity through post partum depression, but rather by her husband and her need for an identity.
The narrator, who is kept nameless throughout the story, is confined in one room on doctor’s order, who happens to be her husband. In the beginning of the “The …show more content…
She starts to see a woman in the wallpaper. In the beginning this woman was a “formless figure sulking about behind the silly and conspicuous front design,” (Gilman 178). The figure first started out as formless, and throughout the story, turns and evolves into this woman. She writes “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman” (Gilman 180). She sees this woman who is being trapped behind these bars, just like she is in her marriage and her life. She creates this woman as a representation of her own life. These walls are the only creative outlook that she can express herself, crazy or not. Throughout the reading, these walls plague her and mess with her fragile mind. She portrays her life into the wallpaper to make sense of it all. These incidents are all towards the end of the story meaning that her constant isolation and John’s treatment sent her over the edge, not her “nervous disorder” or postpartum
The narrator, who is kept nameless throughout the story, is confined in one room on doctor’s order, who happens to be her husband. In the beginning of the “The …show more content…
She starts to see a woman in the wallpaper. In the beginning this woman was a “formless figure sulking about behind the silly and conspicuous front design,” (Gilman 178). The figure first started out as formless, and throughout the story, turns and evolves into this woman. She writes “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman” (Gilman 180). She sees this woman who is being trapped behind these bars, just like she is in her marriage and her life. She creates this woman as a representation of her own life. These walls are the only creative outlook that she can express herself, crazy or not. Throughout the reading, these walls plague her and mess with her fragile mind. She portrays her life into the wallpaper to make sense of it all. These incidents are all towards the end of the story meaning that her constant isolation and John’s treatment sent her over the edge, not her “nervous disorder” or postpartum