The Yellow Wallpaper Analytical Essay

Generating Ideas: A Doll’s House and The Yellow Wallpaper

Nora Helmer- Seems happy in the beginning of the play. Teasing Torwald, speaking that she is so excited that his job is giving him more money and loves their family and friends. She is just like a doll, pampered, perfect and pretty. Torwald refers to her as a “silly girl”. She understands the business details related to the debt she has accumulated by taking out a loan to preserve Torvald’s health says that she is brave and intelligent and shows how she is courageous by breaking the law for her husband.

Torwald Helmer- Nora’s husband. Takes great honor in playing the role of her husband by taking care of her and their family by working and paying the bills. He likes to look at himself as Nora’s savior when he says after the party, “Do you know that I’ve often wished you were facing some terrible dangers so that I could risk life and limb, risk everything, for your sake?” Torvald later reveals himself to be childish and petty at times. He is very worried about what other people think of him out within the community. His explanation for rejecting Nora’s request that Krogstad be kept on at the office. He says that
She is a very imaginative person. She believes that her house is haunted and terrors herself with nightmares about big scary monsters. She turns her imagination on to neutral objects like the house and wallpaper so she can somewhat ignore her frustration. The narrator becomes very focused on the wallpaper in her house. She later identifies herself as the lady trapped in the wallpaper. She’s able to see that other women are forced to hide behind domestic patterns of their lives when she is the one who truly needs to be rescued. In the end, she is “free’ of the constraints of her marriage, society, and her own efforts of her