What Is The Climax Of The Yellow Wallpaper

The story begins with the describing of mental and spiritual feelings of the protagonist. Obviously, the protagonist is so sensitive to treat every trifle, so that her husband John, who is a physician, decided to treat her. It is seemingly ordinary that John made the decision without the wishes of his wife in the power of the patriarchal society. John rent an almost isolated house, and put his wife in the house. He chose yellow wallpaper for her. He also prohibited her doing anything with thinking, like writing. All in all, John decided everything. The protagonist stressed many times that she did not like this house. She thought the room liked a jail. For a long time, she had nothing to do, and then she became inferior and depressed. Finally, she paid her whole attention on the horrific yellow wallpaper. It was no doubt that she began to hallucinate. She regarded the person of the yellow wallpaper as herself, and the boxes and patterns on the yellow wallpaper confined to her. …show more content…
In the ending of the story, the protagonist crawled out of the nursing room when her spirit completely collapsed. At the same time, she tore up all the wallpaper. She told John that no one could put her in the jail again. She left the jail, left the control of her husband, but she has gone mad. In my opinion, the yellow wallpaper is a symbol of the oppression and injustice for women in our real world. Those patterns in the yellow wallpaper, especially those grids, showed that the freedom of women was deprived and imprisoned in the power of the patriarchal society. The protagonist said, “It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.” This sentence clearly showed that women wanted to be equal and to get respect after they were