Analysis Of The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a very interesting story of a woman defeating domination by the man figures in her life. Gilman reveals to the readers how a woman going through postpartum depression feels loneliness and isolation from the outside world, and suppresses her own interests. Gilman discloses how men used to treat women, and how women’s needs and interests were suppressed at that time. The central idea of this story is that women, who are going through any kind of health conditions including depression, should be loved and allowed to make decisions regarding their own health and life styles. The narrator is suffering from postpartum depression, but her personal physician, her husband John, and her physician brother
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The room has the yellow wallpaper, barred window, a nailed bed and, the room was previously used as a nursery, then playroom and gymnasium. The narrator describes that the room has peculiar smell; this worsens her condition. The narrator is bored, and isolated from the world beside her husband and sister-in-law, who works as a housekeeper for them. The narrator is being treated like a child by her husband. She is often left alone for days because her husband works far from the house. When John is at home, he does not address her concerns about her condition. Her condition starts deteriorating, but her controlling husband does not realize that. The narrator states “John does not know how much I really suffer.” (Page 4). The narrator starts to stare at the pattern of the yellow wallpaper, where she sees a woman who is also trapped, and trying to break free. Gilman further describes women’s wish to be break free from the control of men through mentioning of the narrator’s destruction of the wallpaper. The narrator feels freedom. The narrator’s husband passed out when she says, “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane!”(Page 21). The narrator establishes herself as powerful and self- aware that she is no longer controlled by men, and creeps around freely in the
The room has the yellow wallpaper, barred window, a nailed bed and, the room was previously used as a nursery, then playroom and gymnasium. The narrator describes that the room has peculiar smell; this worsens her condition. The narrator is bored, and isolated from the world beside her husband and sister-in-law, who works as a housekeeper for them. The narrator is being treated like a child by her husband. She is often left alone for days because her husband works far from the house. When John is at home, he does not address her concerns about her condition. Her condition starts deteriorating, but her controlling husband does not realize that. The narrator states “John does not know how much I really suffer.” (Page 4). The narrator starts to stare at the pattern of the yellow wallpaper, where she sees a woman who is also trapped, and trying to break free. Gilman further describes women’s wish to be break free from the control of men through mentioning of the narrator’s destruction of the wallpaper. The narrator feels freedom. The narrator’s husband passed out when she says, “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane!”(Page 21). The narrator establishes herself as powerful and self- aware that she is no longer controlled by men, and creeps around freely in the