The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

During the 1800s and most eras, women have been considered inferior to men and should have an obeying demeanor which is challenged through many authors like Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She was well known for her depression and had severe constraints in her own life style which led to these solemn and yet satirical masterpieces. In her short story “ The Yellow Wallpaper”, she conveys her purpose of exposing the constraints men have placed over women through symbolism, irony, and point of view in his psychological thriller.
First, the short story is loaded with symbols within the wallpaper and even the room itself. Furthermore, the wallpaper is the most obvious symbol to focus on due to the fixation generated by the author. As this symbol is used
In fact, the journal uses verbal ironies to give inferiority to the main character and maker her seem “less than” John, for example, she says “I mean to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already!” (480 Gilman) emphasizing women’s secondary positions in society which is obviously being conveyed satirically. Furthermore, dramatic irony occurs multiple times in the story, to note one would be towards the beginning when the narrator describes her room which was supposedly a “nursery” but to the audience the nailed bed, barred window, and rings or in other words shackles are most likely there for an insane person to live in. Another example of this type of irony includes, the protagonist “catching” Jennie, the housekeeper and husbands sister, trying to figure out the patter among the wall while realistically she had just discovered the source of the yellow stains around the home and clothes. Moreover, the stories’ conclusion where John’s resting treatment backfires and dominos his wife into insanity would be considered situational irony, this is because she appeared to be healing but in reality it was a dramatic