The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is told from the perspective of the narrator and her secret diary. The narrator is a young, upper-middle-class woman, newly married and a mother, who is undergoing care for depression. Her lifestyle seems to change after the birth of her baby when she thinks she is sick, but other people think she might be mad. Her inferiority to her husband is seen when she is faced with certain problems, obsession with the wallpaper effects her emotional state, and her ambiguous condition might be caused by her “mental problem,” but helps represent who the narrator is as a person. The narrators problems that she faces as well as the way she handles them really allows her attitude to stand out in
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The stage of depression is shown in this story when the narrator is unable to do what she loves, which is wiring. The yellow wallpaper represents the oppression of women, the wallpaper is simply an ugly patter and unpleasing to the eyes. The paper on the wall forces the narrator is go crazy it goes on and on and makes no sense to her, but her emotional state starts to change all of a sudden. Over the course of the story, the narrators begins to find comfort in the ugly yellow wallpaper. She gradually begins to see a female figure trapped behind the patter of the wallpaper and realizes that both she and the figure was suffering from oppression and imprisonment. As she becomes so engrossed with the women on the wall she suddenly begins to loss the certain desire she had to be the perfect wife and …show more content…
The problems that she is faced with are horrible and really helps provides the audience with an idea about how she solves these issues. The yellow wallpaper does not help her emotional state either, by making her feel trapped inside the room. Finally, the audience gets the sense of who she is throughout the story and how strong this character actually is. No one should feel trapped in their own house or feel like they are going insane when they really are not. This character really sticks out in the story not only because she is the narrator, but also because she provides the audience with certain information that makes the audience kind of feel crazy
The stage of depression is shown in this story when the narrator is unable to do what she loves, which is wiring. The yellow wallpaper represents the oppression of women, the wallpaper is simply an ugly patter and unpleasing to the eyes. The paper on the wall forces the narrator is go crazy it goes on and on and makes no sense to her, but her emotional state starts to change all of a sudden. Over the course of the story, the narrators begins to find comfort in the ugly yellow wallpaper. She gradually begins to see a female figure trapped behind the patter of the wallpaper and realizes that both she and the figure was suffering from oppression and imprisonment. As she becomes so engrossed with the women on the wall she suddenly begins to loss the certain desire she had to be the perfect wife and …show more content…
The problems that she is faced with are horrible and really helps provides the audience with an idea about how she solves these issues. The yellow wallpaper does not help her emotional state either, by making her feel trapped inside the room. Finally, the audience gets the sense of who she is throughout the story and how strong this character actually is. No one should feel trapped in their own house or feel like they are going insane when they really are not. This character really sticks out in the story not only because she is the narrator, but also because she provides the audience with certain information that makes the audience kind of feel crazy