Is the lady trapped in the yellow wallpaper real? These are questions that haunt the narrator who is locked in a room with yellow wallpaper dealing her postpartum depression. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows that we don’t like how freedom taken away from us especially, when you are dealing with depression. Along with the narrator dealing as if her feminism is stripped from her. Over a hundred years ago medication wasn’t available to treat depression like there is now so best thing for the narrator was to write and escape to a reality.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an author and poet who was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Butterworth 1) She was a writer and social activist for women during the late 1800s …show more content…
Perkins did a fantastic job at making the story fill with suspense and conflict along with a good conclusion. Having the narrator locked in the room with the distorted yellow wallpaper isn’t helping with mental state. The style in which it is written is of a journal entry and she’s sharing her experience. “Everything happens within a three-month time span.” (Susan 1) and is within her mind of she is alone and never has anybody but the lady behind the yellow wallpaper. “She begins to think that the wallpaper has two levels to it, from a shadow effect, then the next is a woman behind there just like herself.” (Susan 1). John and his sister, Jennie are suspecting that something bad has happened to the noises coming from the narrator 's room. Her outlet for herself is to write what she knows and when John enters the room to find his wife peeling the wallpaper back with a vengeance, John faints at the sight of his wife going mad. This is just a fragment of everything that the narrator has been through in her life. She is finally breaking free and letting everybody, including her husband that she is independent and is taking her feminism back to become her own person.
Furthermore, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a symbol of how women used to feel of having no say in what to do for treatment or any ideas. Everything Perkins has done in her life is for the greater good of women and having a feminist idea of what everything should be. The life she lived was full of meaning and had an impact on the world with her superior short story and novel dealing with feminism at its finest. Depression is a serious matter especially after having a child and she emphasized that to the greatest extent on what can happen especially in those
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an author and poet who was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Butterworth 1) She was a writer and social activist for women during the late 1800s …show more content…
Perkins did a fantastic job at making the story fill with suspense and conflict along with a good conclusion. Having the narrator locked in the room with the distorted yellow wallpaper isn’t helping with mental state. The style in which it is written is of a journal entry and she’s sharing her experience. “Everything happens within a three-month time span.” (Susan 1) and is within her mind of she is alone and never has anybody but the lady behind the yellow wallpaper. “She begins to think that the wallpaper has two levels to it, from a shadow effect, then the next is a woman behind there just like herself.” (Susan 1). John and his sister, Jennie are suspecting that something bad has happened to the noises coming from the narrator 's room. Her outlet for herself is to write what she knows and when John enters the room to find his wife peeling the wallpaper back with a vengeance, John faints at the sight of his wife going mad. This is just a fragment of everything that the narrator has been through in her life. She is finally breaking free and letting everybody, including her husband that she is independent and is taking her feminism back to become her own person.
Furthermore, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a symbol of how women used to feel of having no say in what to do for treatment or any ideas. Everything Perkins has done in her life is for the greater good of women and having a feminist idea of what everything should be. The life she lived was full of meaning and had an impact on the world with her superior short story and novel dealing with feminism at its finest. Depression is a serious matter especially after having a child and she emphasized that to the greatest extent on what can happen especially in those