“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is about a sick wife who suffers from mental illness or depression. The wife narrates the story in first person. The husband and wife move into a mansion and the wife’s illness worsens. The husband, a doctor, diagnoses her sickness and prescribes her rest. While in bed the wife becomes bored with free time and writes in a journal about her opinions on the house. After a while the wife becomes obsessed with a particular room in the house. She despises the wallpaper in the room and wishes to destroy it, but her sickness has made her mentally unstable. Her mental sickness grows until she cannot control her hate for her husband and so she kills herself. She takes her life thinking she was trapped in the wallpaper. “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the plot throughout the story shows the conflict of the
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The wife is unable to do physical activity or work until she gets better. The narrator pretends to feel better for the sake of John’s approval, she tells him, “I’m feeling ever so much better! I don’t sleep much at night, for it is so interesting to watch developments; but I sleep a good deal in the daytime.”(475) As the narrator rests, she becomes curious about the house and all of its details. She soon searches the inside of the house, becoming obsessed with its markings and images, like the scratch marks on the floor and the torn wallpaper and even the image of the broken neck through a patterns she sees on the wallpaper. The nailed, down bed and barred windows force the wife to be trapped in the room, creating a prison for her. The room is considered a prison due to the. The upstairs room was once upon a children’s play room and nursery it was constructed to keep the kids from hurting themselves and is now used for John’s wife not to hurt herself during her time of
The wife is unable to do physical activity or work until she gets better. The narrator pretends to feel better for the sake of John’s approval, she tells him, “I’m feeling ever so much better! I don’t sleep much at night, for it is so interesting to watch developments; but I sleep a good deal in the daytime.”(475) As the narrator rests, she becomes curious about the house and all of its details. She soon searches the inside of the house, becoming obsessed with its markings and images, like the scratch marks on the floor and the torn wallpaper and even the image of the broken neck through a patterns she sees on the wallpaper. The nailed, down bed and barred windows force the wife to be trapped in the room, creating a prison for her. The room is considered a prison due to the. The upstairs room was once upon a children’s play room and nursery it was constructed to keep the kids from hurting themselves and is now used for John’s wife not to hurt herself during her time of