Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
I. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the woman is the narrator and she tells the readers about her peculiar experience with the yellow wallpaper.
II. The woman explains that she is very sick and that she suffers from a “nervous depression.” She is always tiered and groggy and spends most of her time in the nursery, a large upstairs bedroom.
III. The narrator is suffering from an illness and her husband who is a physician takes her away to a vacation house to get better. While there he forbids her to do any mental or physical activity. While her husband is away she secretly writes in a diary telling the readers about her experience with the horrid yellow wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s character, the …show more content…
She tears away yards of wallpaper and grabs a rope that she has hidden to tie herself up once she captures herself, so in a sense she cannot get away.
c. Once she is out of the wallpaper she wonders to herself if other women have come out of the wallpaper just as she has.
d. The narrator even goes to say, “I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard! It is so great to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!” (13).
e. The above quote and examples show that the narrator feels as if she has won because she has uncovered the mystery behind the yellow wallpaper by finding herself.
Conclusion
IV. Her fantasies are the effect of her trying to uncover the mystery of what is hidden behind the wallpaper.
a. The significance of the woman in the yellow wallpaper it that she is the one telling the story to the readers, so they are able to see the wallpaper from her perspective.
b. Her obsession with the wallpaper causes her to perform an investigation which leads her to find that she is the woman in the wallpaper.
c. Instead of seeking help for her illness like most people would, her husband decides to isolates her in the room with the yellow wallpaper causing her to get worse and come up with these delusional
II. The woman explains that she is very sick and that she suffers from a “nervous depression.” She is always tiered and groggy and spends most of her time in the nursery, a large upstairs bedroom.
III. The narrator is suffering from an illness and her husband who is a physician takes her away to a vacation house to get better. While there he forbids her to do any mental or physical activity. While her husband is away she secretly writes in a diary telling the readers about her experience with the horrid yellow wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s character, the …show more content…
She tears away yards of wallpaper and grabs a rope that she has hidden to tie herself up once she captures herself, so in a sense she cannot get away.
c. Once she is out of the wallpaper she wonders to herself if other women have come out of the wallpaper just as she has.
d. The narrator even goes to say, “I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard! It is so great to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!” (13).
e. The above quote and examples show that the narrator feels as if she has won because she has uncovered the mystery behind the yellow wallpaper by finding herself.
Conclusion
IV. Her fantasies are the effect of her trying to uncover the mystery of what is hidden behind the wallpaper.
a. The significance of the woman in the yellow wallpaper it that she is the one telling the story to the readers, so they are able to see the wallpaper from her perspective.
b. Her obsession with the wallpaper causes her to perform an investigation which leads her to find that she is the woman in the wallpaper.
c. Instead of seeking help for her illness like most people would, her husband decides to isolates her in the room with the yellow wallpaper causing her to get worse and come up with these delusional