The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of The Yellow Wallpaper wrote the story having little to no knowing that it was going to be part of feminist literature. Moreover the story playing a part with feminism, the story has a light feel of horror to it that attracted others as well. The story is being told in the eyes of the narrator who becomes crazy obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. Throughout The Yellow Wallpaper, points of woman suffrage, horror, and the victorian time set thematic ways of the story. The primary part of the story is the wallpaper itself. Because of the wallpaper, the narrator comes to find herself lost within the wallpaper including her last bits of freedom. Starting off the story, the narrator's obsession with the wallpaper is not detected to be anything major, although as the story continues, the obsession with the wallpaper only gets worse and becomes the center of the story and the narrator herself.
The room in which the narrator was place in was covered in yellow wallpaper that “commit[s] every artistic sin”(426). The design of the wallpaper intrigues the narrator more than it really should, she begins to see beneath the lines. When she takes her first looks at the wallpaper, she sees “bulbous eyes” and “absurd unblinking eyes . . . everywhere”(427). The eyes that do not stop watching the narrator, gives the reader that jittery creepy feel; the eyes do not only depict a creepy feel, but it also highlights how the women were always watched and expected to play a certain role throughout that