The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(I)What do you do when your wife is mentally ill? Well, try locking her in a room of a scary looking mansion. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays a story about a victim(the narrator) whose husband is convinced that his wife is ill and needs to be confined to bed rest for a long period of time in a spacious room which included a hideous and repulsive pattern on a yellow wallpaper. Gilman utilized her own post pregnancy desolation to make an effective fictitious story which included wide ramifications for women. At the point when Gilman perceives that there are more women out there who suffer such grotesque entrapments, Gilman then sheds light on the importance of her story stretches way past a remote, distinct standpoint.
The narrator talks about her husband is "Practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures."(Gilman 553) John thinks in his own way; which of course makes things hard on the narrator and makes it even harder for her to convince him of her uneasiness in the prison-like bedroom he puts her in. The quote above basically states that John only sees things how HE wants them to be seen, no other way shall anyone try to convince him otherwise. Her hubsnads voice to her is very powerful and authoritative, whatever he demands she must give. Being very practical John believes hard facts and intricate answers rather than feel for emotions and give comfort when needed. He’s very emotionless. “John does not know how much I suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him” Another quote which sheds light on John’s selflessness. He does not understand his wife's struggle and her inner emotions. John does not bother to look at things with a deeper point of view and take a look at how his wife truly feels. A phrase in the quote says “He knows there is no reason to suffer” which
It could be that the color is only twisting her mind because she is looking at it too much. After all she is locked in a room with nothing to do except stare at the wallpaper. Falling deeper and deeper into its trance. “There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begin to think—I wish John would take me away from here!” Deeper throughout the story, the mental effects of the yellow wallpaper finally come into the light. The narrator spills are thoughts out on a canvas, which shed light onto the aggravating truth about her. Gilman's incongruity is in full effect here: these things that she describes in the paper are “The woman stooping down and creeping about”(Gilman 557) the same “woman in the wallpaper”(Suess 93) in Seuss's article which the narrator visualizes and the exasperating thoughts she is coming to get from them. Therefore she tries to contradict her developing understanding of these disturbing thoughts, she is entangled within the Yellow wallpaper