Analysis Of The Poem ' The Yellow Wallpaper '

It is difficult to discuss the meaning in this story without first examining the author’s own personal experience. “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives an account of a woman driven to madness as a result of the

He had even hired a housekeeper to take care of not only the house, but the baby as well. John also controlled almost everything in her life. In fact, the only thing he did not control was her journal writing, and even then she had to hide it from him since he did not approve of it. When he comes she says, "I must put this (the journal) away - he hates to have me write a word"(471). Part of John's problem 1s that he is a doctor. As a doctor, he control's his wife's health care, prescribing her medicines and her overall cure. As her husband, he is too emotionally involved to look at the case objectively, or if he had, he might have seen her mind going before it was too late. Not only that, the accepted "cure" at that particular time was ineffective and would only serve to make his wife worse (473). This "cure" was the product of a certain Dr. Weir Mitchell; a nerve specialist whose theory of a "rest cure" for mentally unstable patients was later found to be unsuccessful. In the story, the husband's ill-advised attempts to treat his wife's symptoms drive her insane by taking all responsibility from her and forcing isolation upon her as a part of her "cure."

Every request the woman in the story has made to her husband has been dismissed and her depression continues to worsen because she has lost control of her own life. John fails to understand how it feels for his wife to be trapped in her room all day. “He forces his wife into a daily confinement by four walls whose paper, described as ‘debased Romanesque,’ is an omnipresent figuring of the

The description of the house by the woman is positively somehow. However, she is disturbed by some elements such as; “the rings and things” in the walls, and that the bars on the windows keep showing up. In addition, what was disturbing her the most is the yellow wall paper which is creepy with a formless pattern and that leads her to be totally insane. Readers are introduced to the woman’s desperate thoughts and feelings, yet her husband came and interrupted her thoughts and she was forced to stop writing. Furthermore, she always complains that her husband John who is a physician belittles her illness, her own thoughts and that makes her more depressed. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a deep feminist story that shows the unequal relationship between women and men in the 19th century and uses the yellow

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is told she needs to rest constantly to overcome her sickness, so she is forced to stay in the old nursery where there is yellow-orange wallpaper with a busy, obnoxious pattern that she hates. She tries to study the wallpaper to distinguish the pattern, and as time goes on she believes she sees a woman moving around in the background of the pattern. Also, during this period of time the character’s condition is worsening, because her husband is causing her mind to weaken by not allowing her to exert herself at all; he says she is not to think about her condition, walk through the garden or visit family. All she can do is sleep and trace the wallpaper, and being cooped up in the room causes her to begin hallucinating. The narrator sees the woman trying to escape from the wallpaper throughout the night, and she ultimately completely breaks down and believes that she is the woman.

help her mind but she is being controlled by her husband as she considers it to be a relief but

John, the narrator’s controlling, but loving, husband represents the atypical man of the time. He wants his wife to get better and to be able to fill the role of the perfect wife that society expected from her. John, being a doctor, did not quite believe that her mental illness was out of her control and insisted on

The physician in the story does not construct a joint narrative with the narrator regarding her treatment for depression. Depression being a mental condition, is regarded by the narrator’s physician with little urgency as it is treated not as fatal as an infectious

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkin’s Gilman. This story portrays the feminist point of view on how women are mistreated. The main character is the wife in the story, and she is supposedly mentally ill. Therefore, her husband makes her move to a new house. The new house has a room with barred windows and yellow wallpaper, which becomes the room the wife stays in. The yellow wallpaper in the room has a certain shape trapped behind the wall, the shape of a woman. The wife spends the majority of the story trying to get the woman out from behind the wallpaper where she is trapped. The woman that she thinks is trapped behind the wallpaper is symbolizing how

seems that John is very controlling and doesn't pay true attention to his wife. The illnesses of both the

Although it has small interactions with some other peoples, we mainly see that he talks alone with her husband. John said that it must be in the room on the second floor, which must not write, you must not do much, and that must rest. There is much that John believes that he must do it. And if you are not agree, man of few reasons are enough to keep changing its idea. It is the power, no doubt. John also has a name which hardened to it. But with this common name, John can be any husband or doctor that is. Then it represents all men and makes us think that all men have this power. If he comes to the House, woman hides her diary, is still, and accept everything that John advised. When John speaks with his wife, as a baby trafficking. She wants to move into the room on the floor below, but John tells him no, and called him in diminutives as "a tontita" and "creature", or the English version "a blessed little goose" and "little girl". (Gilman) There is another part where John "took me in her arms, took me up, put me in bed and read me until I got tired head." (Gilman). Thus we see this way of talking about and care for the woman as if she were a little girl. It does not take seriously his wife. John is a doctor, and is similar to the neurologist who helped Gilman in his life - it says that a break is the best prescription for a weak

The story of The Yellow Wallpaper is told through a secret journal kept by the wife of a

John does little to nothing to actually attempt to diagnose or treat his own wife. In the house they’re staying at she is put into a large room by herself that was previously a nursery. It has barred windows and yellow wallpaper that she is fixated on. She watches the pattern for hours trying to distinguish something. She starts to notice her mental state deteriorating, the wallpaper making her exhausted.

The man plays a significant role in the story as the overbearing spouse. He clearly rules the roost, and it is shown by the influence he has over the wife. "John controls nearly all aspects of his wife 's life, such as who she sees, which room she sleeps in, and which furniture surrounds her" (Startripping. n.d). The first line that I would like to point out gives a startling insight into the character 's marriage by stating "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage" (Lynn, 2004 p. 317). This line shows that he does not have any respect for his wife, but rather he sees her as a lesser person of interest. John views his wife throughout the story as smaller person, and it resembles it through the dialogue of the short story. "He is very

All along the story, John, the husband believes he can cure his wife, manage her behavior and keep his status in society. She fights against the patriarchal system by hiding her mental instability until the very end. Because of the importance of the narrator, she deserves mentioning. She is the main character and the “I” in the story without a name. The narration of the story in the first person made it difficult to figure out what to call her. It was unavoidable at times not to call the narrator, John’s wife. She, as John’s wife, has bought into a system that she is struggling against and ultimately it is her undoing.