What Is The Mood Of The Yellow Wallpaper

The color of the wallpaper is “repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.” The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story which was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in January 1892. We are never given the full identity of the narrator in the story, yet we do know she “neglects proper self-control; taking pains to control myself- before him, at least, and that makes me very tired”, showing the reader she is mentally ill. Her and her husband John moved into this haunted mansion in which the narrator commences an obsession with the wallpaper that is in the house. The Yellow Wallpaper becomes the narrator’s obsession to the point where she became to describe it as if it was alive, being “it
We see this in how the narrator is struggling to become healthy again. John is a physician who “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.” With this, the narrator believes her husband is the reason she is still sick and unable to get better. The narrator states that sometimes she “fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus-but John says the very worst things I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.” The wallpaper, the scratched floor, and the marks on the bed posts remind her of a constant horror, leading the entire room to oppresses the protagonist. She is being further driven to insanity by her husband’s controlling mannerisms. She has gone crazy trying to live up to societies standards therefore making it impossible for her husband to change his diagnosis of
During this time, women in society were only given strict orders and were barred from doing anything besides from the task they were assigned to do. The narrator hallucinates from the wallpaper shown in “I see her on the long road under trees, creeping along, and when a carriage comes she hides under the blackberry vines.” She has had a baby and many believe her depression has come from the inability to be with her baby. This is shown in, “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous.” The hallucinations she endures with the wallpaper ultimately are what lead her to see that she is the woman trapped “inside the wallpaper,” which is a crucial part of the