Postpartum depression has paranoia, hallucination and sleep troubles, as a few of the symptoms. However, back when the “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in the late nineteenth century, the mental disorder had a different name. Tying this into the story,“The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator has all of these symptoms. At points in the story, she sees a woman in the wallpaper and starts to think someone is on the other side. The hallucinations could be referencing when the narrator thought the person in the wall has a snapped neck and the eyes were popping out. However, the sleep troubles could be an underlying result of the medication that the narrator had to take. Because of the psychological fight from postpartum
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Defined by the Oxford dictionary as a, mental illness characterized by a persistent delusional system, usually on the theme of persecution, exaggerated personal importance, or sexual fantasy or jealousy, often as a manifestation of schizophrenia.Throughout the story, the narrator has to differentiate between reality and fantasy. This is most prominent in the middle of the story when she starts to trace the cracks in the papered wall to find an outlet to get the woman out of the paper whom she is trying to see. What Gilman wrote to describe the cracks in the paper was, “There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.”(650). The way the cracks though the walls are obscured and uneven. The narrator starts to blame the woman in the wall. Thus trying to save her from the other side of the paper to get an answer why she is shaking the paper. Although the paranoia may have been caused by the wallpaper and her depression plays a key role in the feeling. Due to being in the nursery and her child in a separate room as her, because of the woman in the paper, the narrator feels that she must take care of the woman. This is a key tool to replace the missing child in her life. Despite the fact that it could be the wallpaper, it could possibly be the motherly side of the narrator that drives herself to the edge of sanity and finally tipping over the
Defined by the Oxford dictionary as a, mental illness characterized by a persistent delusional system, usually on the theme of persecution, exaggerated personal importance, or sexual fantasy or jealousy, often as a manifestation of schizophrenia.Throughout the story, the narrator has to differentiate between reality and fantasy. This is most prominent in the middle of the story when she starts to trace the cracks in the papered wall to find an outlet to get the woman out of the paper whom she is trying to see. What Gilman wrote to describe the cracks in the paper was, “There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.”(650). The way the cracks though the walls are obscured and uneven. The narrator starts to blame the woman in the wall. Thus trying to save her from the other side of the paper to get an answer why she is shaking the paper. Although the paranoia may have been caused by the wallpaper and her depression plays a key role in the feeling. Due to being in the nursery and her child in a separate room as her, because of the woman in the paper, the narrator feels that she must take care of the woman. This is a key tool to replace the missing child in her life. Despite the fact that it could be the wallpaper, it could possibly be the motherly side of the narrator that drives herself to the edge of sanity and finally tipping over the