The Yellow Wallpaper Feminist Analysis Essay

Feminist Theoretical Lense

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, it is shown that women are able to have jobs, but at the same time it is discouraged for women to have jobs that do not involve the home. From this, the period of the story that is unknown leaves question as to what the women in the passage are trying to say and as to whether the narrator’s current role can be truly common or eccentric. Gilman, who had written the story is 1899, gives readers little of an idea of where the story may be taking place and the significance of the characters and differences of them. The narrator compared to her sister in law, seems much more curious of the affairs in public and is less calm. Moreover, her relationship with her
The room has the yellow wallpaper that is considered hideous and atrocious. Besides the wallpaper, the room is much like a cage, considering that was once for children to play in and that had need safety precautions. The room required redecorating that John had decided to not to redecorate despite the narrator's displease, so the wallpaper had stayed and then had integrated itself within the narrator. The cages and hideous wallpaper contraintes the imaginary women in the room. The women “take hold of the [cage’s] bars and shakes them hard.” She tries to escape the restraints which represent discrimination of women in marriages and society. The women continue to struggle, and as the narrator at first despises her, she later lets her out at the end with the realization that woman was herself. The women in wallpaper, as Gilman wrote, “are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one.” The women that in the wallpaper include the narrator who find the men of society to be constraining. Gilman implies this by intertwining the idea of the women “creeping” during the day when John is out and by remaining more silent at night when John is at