The passage from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper introduces the reader to three characters. The narrator who we are not given a name, her husband and her brother. The narrator has moved into a mansion for the summer. She feels that this mansion is haunted because they got it cheaper than expected and it has not been lived in for quite some time. The narrator is also suffering from some kind of sickness but her husband and brother who are both physicians do not think there is anything wrong with her. They tell her not to work or even write, the narrator continues to write when no one is around and the reader is reading her writing that she was able to do when her husband wasn’t around.
The voice of the narrator seems overdramatic by the way the character writes about her current situation. The character says “and what can one do?”, she is …show more content…
Living in a haunted house with a controlling husband could easily classify this as a thriller. Focusing on the passage it seems like the husband is overly controlling, not even letting the women be able to write and having her to have to secretly do it behind his back. This shows that she is afraid of what is to happen if she were to get caught and has a hard time standing up to him in the first place, as mentioned before. Another example which emphasizes this, is this line, “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it”. This quote mentions that she wanted a different room and when she mentioned it her husband would not change rooms. Especially since she is sick, one would imagine that her husband would happily switch rooms to make his wife happy but instead he is too bossy and controlling and makes the decisions and she is left to have to deal with
The voice of the narrator seems overdramatic by the way the character writes about her current situation. The character says “and what can one do?”, she is …show more content…
Living in a haunted house with a controlling husband could easily classify this as a thriller. Focusing on the passage it seems like the husband is overly controlling, not even letting the women be able to write and having her to have to secretly do it behind his back. This shows that she is afraid of what is to happen if she were to get caught and has a hard time standing up to him in the first place, as mentioned before. Another example which emphasizes this, is this line, “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it”. This quote mentions that she wanted a different room and when she mentioned it her husband would not change rooms. Especially since she is sick, one would imagine that her husband would happily switch rooms to make his wife happy but instead he is too bossy and controlling and makes the decisions and she is left to have to deal with