Yellow Wallpaper Reflection

The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson takes place during the summer time in a colonial mansion otherwise stated in the text as a hereditary estate with something queer about it. The story focuses on the narrator, a young mother suffering from "nervous depression" and her husband John a physician of high standards (coincidently her physician). John along with his wife take tenancy in the grand and estranged estate. The couple stays there for three to five months in hope to improve her overall health. While there her husband gives her strict guidelines to follow; she takes phosphates or phosphites, tonics, journeys, air, exercise, and absolutely forbidden to work. As an imaginative and talented writer, she …show more content…
Then the paper on the wall containing patches all around the headboard with a pattern that commits every artistic sin. The color repellant almost revolting, a smoldering unclean yellow that strangely fades from the slow-turning sunlight. A dull yet lurid orange color in some places with a sticky sulfur tint in other places. Her journal then turns to the wallpaper and how she obsesses over it. John being away most of the time thinks her health is improving. Not seeing that she is not getting out, sleeping at night, or her unchanging appetite; in fact he thinks that she is improving. She begins sleeping more during the day while at night she stays awake to focus on the figure in the wallpaper. For at night, the figure begins to move in the moonlight. Observing more and more, she soon realizes the figure is actually a woman in the wallpaper. As time goes on the narrator sees this woman outside through the windows, in the shaded lane creeping through the garden and on the long road under the trees. At this point, she suspects that John is aware of her obsession she comes to a conclusion. One day while John is away she decides to take it upon herself to save this