Analysis Of The Book ' The Yellow Wallpaper '

“You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?” A woman writes, frustrated and trapped in a house with hideous, yellow wallpaper. The woman is aware of her own mental illness, yet her husband believes that her "nervous depression" is temporary. As a result, her husband forces her into isolation with her husband and their maid in a house far from society. Trapped in a mansion, the woman anchors herself to an odd thing: the yellow wallpaper of her bedroom. Despite her husband telling her not to, the woman writes pages about the yellow wallpaper. Her description of the wallpaper grows more elaborate each entry. The woman begins by only seeing stains in the wallpaper, then patterns, then movement, then a woman trapped. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is that of a mentally ill woman once strong and observant. Yet, improper treatment and the four walls of a house that became a prison led to her fall.

IIn the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband has rented an old mansion in the country for the summer. John is relying on this vacation as the time for his wife’s nervous condition to resolve itself with rest and medicines. As the story unfolds for the readers, it becomes apparent her husband, John, is monitoring her 24 hours a day. She feels somewhat condemned that she is unable to change her circumstances and she ends up as a victim, thus confirming the dominance of men over women during that period. Between the narrator’s controlling husband and the deterioration of her mind, she inevitably snaps and becomes completely delusional.

Throughout the story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator of the story displays signs of depression. The narrator of the story was brought to an old colonial mansion that has been untenanted for a long while by her husband John, who believed that she had a nervous condition. On the walls in the nursery of the house, there was yellow wallpaper that, according to the narrator, was horrific. After staying in the house a while, the narrator began to become obsessed with the wallpaper, and she would use some bizarre language to describe the sight. When the narrator describes the wallpaper you can tell that there is a something deeper that’s wrong other than just a nervous condition: “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a woman descending into psychosis in a creepy tale which depicts the harm of an old therapy called “rest cure.” This therapy was used to treat women who had “slight hysterical tendencies” and depression, and basically it consisted of the inhibition of the mental processes. The label “slight hysterical tendency” indicates that it is not seen as a very important issue, and it is taken rather lightly. It is also ironic because her illness is obviously not “slight” by any means, especially towards the end when the images painted of her are reminiscent of a psychotic, maniacal person, while she aggressively tears off wallpaper and confuses the real world with her alternative world she has

The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a paradox: as she loses touch with the outer world, she comes to a greater understanding of the inner reality of her life. This inner/outer split is crucial to understanding the nature of the narrator’s suffering. At every point, she is faced with relationships, objects, and situations that seem innocent and natural but that are actually quite bizarre and even oppressive. In a sense, the plot of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the narrator’s attempt to avoid acknowledging the extent to which her external situation stifles her inner impulses. From the beginning, we see that the narrator is an imaginative, highly expressive woman. She remembers terrifying herself with imaginary nighttime monsters as a child, and she enjoys the notion that the house they have taken is haunted. Yet as part of her “cure,” her husband forbids her to exercise her imagination in any way. Both her reason and her emotions rebel at this treatment, and she turns her imagination onto seemingly neutral objects—the house and the wallpaper—in an attempt to ignore her growing frustration. Her negative feelings color her description of her surroundings, making them seem uncanny and sinister, and she

The setting of these two stories emphasize, on visually showing us how the main characters are based around trying to find freedom despite the physical, mental and emotional effects of living in confinement. While on the other hand, dealing with Psychology’s ugly present day behavior showing dystopia of societies views of women during the time period they lived.

The narrator identify with the woman in the yellow wallpaper because she represent the the internal pain that she suffers from. The “nervous depression” is pain she has with neglect, depression, and the insanity increase the problem. The neglect show her mind beginning to crack under the pressure. While depression and insanity represented her mind giving in to the madness of what is happening when she is looking at the wallpaper. Overall, narrator identify with the woman because they share similar pain of being stuck in one place without anywhere to

Clinical psychologist and writer, Kay Redfield Jamison once said, “I think one thing is that anybody who 's had to contend with mental illness - whether it 's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they 've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.” In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator has severe depression, at the very least, and knows that she can get better if she is given the right treatment. While trying to get better, she can’t help but be fixated on the yellow wallpaper in her room. The yellow wallpaper in this story is a representation of the narrator’s relationship with her disease.

In The Yellow Wallpaper, the story is narrated by a woman with a mental illness who seems trapped in her own mind as well as trapped in her room. As the story proceeds and her condition worsens, the images she portrays in the wallpaper become more disturbing. The woman is fixated on her hate of the wallpaper and it drives her insane.

The protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” shows many symptoms that could lead to different diagnosis. She has to take medication every hour, cries at almost nothing, gets fatigued easily and shows a sign of extreme madness. The unnamed narrator of the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has gone from sane to insane. She was stuck in a house that she did not want to be in all the time. The stories title comes from the nursery she was in for most of the time, it had wallpaper that was yellow.

Underneath The Wallpaper Written in journal form, the author uses symbolism to paint a vivid picture of the character’s marriage, the social perception of women, and an inadequacy of understanding within field of psychology. The dialogue of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is taken from the context of the main characters journal. The main character shares her inner thoughts and perceptions to give the reader insight to her reality and deterioration of her mental condition. The yellow wall- paper encountered by the main character serves many symbolism functions to the author and is subject to interpretation by the reader. The main character perceives her husband John and herself as ordinary.

According to a study conducted by The University of Massachusetts, sixty percent of adults cannot have a ten minute conversation without lying at least once. Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring, each of the narrator's act in a way that makes the reader notices that they are not trustworthy and stable enough to narrate a story from an unbiased standpoint. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The Yellow Wallpaper takes the reader inside the mind and emotions of a woman suffering a slow mental breakdown caused by attempts to restore her mental health. Strawberry

The Women in the “The Yellow Wallpaper” losses sense to the real world. She is a young and mother who began to suffer from depression and anxiety. John the husband is a doctor and diagnoses her neurasthenia which is illness by lassitude, fatigue, headaches, and irritability. Mostly it is her emotions that seems to get in her way. The women acts like she is trapped in a jail cell with emotions attacking. John in this story is described as the villain, making the readers think that because of him, the women is drove to insanity. In some ways to be true. It is hard what is effecting the women, the story to me is unclear about what is wrong with the narrator. I believe what is wrong with her is a very serious case of depression. She seems not to

The Woman Behind the Wall Much like a house, the human mind is comprised of rooms and levels. There are rooms with no doors, they are open to host family, friends, and transient guests. However, there are also rooms with doors and locks; rooms to which only the owner of the house has access to. Similarly, the human mind has qualities which are to be displayed openly, and qualities which are to be kept hidden. In her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman utilizes symbols which could be mirrored to her personal life and mental condition.

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” story, the theme is mental illness. The woman in this story clearly is suffering from some sort of mental illness such as post part-partum depression and hysterical tendencies. Which can turn into something much more serious if someone does not intervene and get her some the help she really needs. However, they felt it was the right way to handle it at the time because they were following the old therapy treatment called “rest cure.” You watch her slowly go out her mind. Meanwhile she thinks her husband is taking perfect care of her. It seems like John was purely controlling her and prescribing her things that she probably did not really need. It was like he was making her