The Yellow Wallpaper Setting Analysis

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the setting took place at a vacation home. She describes the room as big and roomy and had windows with bars on them. “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” (Gilman, 1899). The narrator also stated the room was once a nursery, which can correlates for how John treats he wife like a child. “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.” (Gilman, 1899). Again, the author is showing how women had to take direction from their husbands who ran the household.
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. … I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. I can't do it at night, for I know John would suspect something at once. And John is so queer now, that I don't want to irritate him. I wish he would take another room! Besides, I don't want anybody to get that woman out at night but myself.”(Gilman, 1899).The woman tried to free the woman behind the wallpaper, which the narrator freeing herself and is trying to gain her own identity from her husband. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the lady only gained mental control over her life when she freed the lady trapped behind the wallpaper. The lady trapped behind the wallpaper, represented the woman feeling trapped in a marriage and wanting to be free. By the women escaping, she ends up losing her identity still because she ends up mentally destroyed. “I’ve got out at last…in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back” (Gilman, 1899).Gilman used setting in, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, to give the readers a visual of how the character ends up trying to find herself, but still losing herself in the