The narrator is in this room surrounded with walls covered in hideous yellow wallpaper. Later in the narrative the reader learns the real problem begins to unravel when the narrator instead sees herself behind this sheet of yellow wallpaper and finds this to be her escape from the judgement made upon her by her husband (“Madwoman in the Attic: The Female Gothic in 19th Century Literature”). The reader will learn throughout the story that the narrator is a mother and does not tend to her newborn because she gets “so nervous” around the child and cannot be near it (Hume). But in actuality learns that the diagnosis made upon the narrator’s husband to keep the narrator away from the newborn is an excuse used by the narrator, because the narrator exemplifies hatred towards her family (Hume). “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a narrator who is bizarre and views herself that way, she cannot care for her child because she is seriously ill and is greatly believed to be at the end of the
The narrator is in this room surrounded with walls covered in hideous yellow wallpaper. Later in the narrative the reader learns the real problem begins to unravel when the narrator instead sees herself behind this sheet of yellow wallpaper and finds this to be her escape from the judgement made upon her by her husband (“Madwoman in the Attic: The Female Gothic in 19th Century Literature”). The reader will learn throughout the story that the narrator is a mother and does not tend to her newborn because she gets “so nervous” around the child and cannot be near it (Hume). But in actuality learns that the diagnosis made upon the narrator’s husband to keep the narrator away from the newborn is an excuse used by the narrator, because the narrator exemplifies hatred towards her family (Hume). “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a narrator who is bizarre and views herself that way, she cannot care for her child because she is seriously ill and is greatly believed to be at the end of the