Summary: The Yellow Wallpaper
Jazmin Evans
ENGL 1102
Professor Armida Gilbert
10 June 2015
Short Story Essay
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” was written in 1892, and is often referred to as a feminist short story. Most people refer to it as such because the women in the story goes insane because of the role that most women played in society were very limited in that time period. She could not express herself at all, could it be possible that the author is making a feminist statement? This topic could take at least two different approaches. Locked away in a mental prison of her husband’s machination, the protagonist of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the best example of women seeking freedom in the 1800’s. This story is clearly from a feminist standpoint, it even shows that the author had some run ins with demanding and demeaning men. The theme of feminism is …show more content…
Her environment is some-what like a prison. When the wife requests that her husband change the wallpaper he refuses, stating “that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on” (3). Even though the bars and wall paper put the wife in a repressed state her husband still refuses to change her environment. Showing that he wishes to make her feel imprisoned. The most obvious setting come from the wife and the wall paper: “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!” (10).The paper itself, not physically restraining her, but it does represent a psychological prison. All of her thoughts and conversations are based entirely to the paper. She is unable to keep her mind from the strange pattern. This all brings it back to a woman being trapped behind bars, the mind is not free until the end of the
ENGL 1102
Professor Armida Gilbert
10 June 2015
Short Story Essay
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” was written in 1892, and is often referred to as a feminist short story. Most people refer to it as such because the women in the story goes insane because of the role that most women played in society were very limited in that time period. She could not express herself at all, could it be possible that the author is making a feminist statement? This topic could take at least two different approaches. Locked away in a mental prison of her husband’s machination, the protagonist of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the best example of women seeking freedom in the 1800’s. This story is clearly from a feminist standpoint, it even shows that the author had some run ins with demanding and demeaning men. The theme of feminism is …show more content…
Her environment is some-what like a prison. When the wife requests that her husband change the wallpaper he refuses, stating “that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on” (3). Even though the bars and wall paper put the wife in a repressed state her husband still refuses to change her environment. Showing that he wishes to make her feel imprisoned. The most obvious setting come from the wife and the wall paper: “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!” (10).The paper itself, not physically restraining her, but it does represent a psychological prison. All of her thoughts and conversations are based entirely to the paper. She is unable to keep her mind from the strange pattern. This all brings it back to a woman being trapped behind bars, the mind is not free until the end of the