Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Jane Is Far Too Gone

In The Yellow Wallpaper Jane is sick and goes to a country house to overcome her sickness. She stays in a guest bedroom. During her stay she starts hallucinating and gets in a relationship with this woman in the wall. Every night Jane would wake up in the middle of the night. She watches the woman in the wall. Jane forms a strong relationship with the woman. As Jane watches the woman she sees that the woman is trapped. Seeing that the woman is trapped relates to her ownself in what she is going through. Her last night stay at the country house she watches the woman in the wall like she has the last several nights. She immediately starts tearing the wallpaper off the wall. After she tears it off she feels as if she is freed from this sickness that she was diagnosed with. The relationship that she formed with the woman in the wall help herself in her time of

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a female narrator who is suffering from some form of post partum depression that spirals out of control as her husband tries to help by secluding her, in the middle of nowhere for three months. Since the woman is already admittedly unsound, the seclusion makes her fixate severely on yellow wallpaper in her bedroom. Eventually as her story progresses, her fixation becomes an obsession and the wallpaper begins to do things completely improbable. Eventually it becomes impossible to distinguish the facts from the fiction buried amidst her madness. By the end of her story, you realize that nothing this narrator is writing is reliable; because all the people around her notice

The mood of the story shifted from nervous, anxious, hesitant even, to tense and secretive, and shifts again to paranoid and determination. Her anxiousness is evident whenever she talks to John. She always seems to think for lengthy time when attempting to express her concerns about her condition to him. The mood shift from anxious to secretive is clear when she writes “I had no intention of telling him it was BECAUSE of the wall-paper.” (9). She wants no one to figure out the affect the wallpaper has on her and she wants to be the only one to figure out its pattern. The final mood shift to determination is obvious when she writes “But I am here, and no person must touch this paper but me – not ALIVE!” (11). She is steadfast in attempting to free the woman from the wallpaper. She even goes as far as to lock herself in the room to make sure that she is not interrupted. The major conflicts of this story are the narrator versus John over the nature of her illness and its treatment and the narrator’s internal struggle to express herself and claim independence. During the entire story her and John’s views about her treatment conflict with each other, especially when it comes to her writing. He even makes her stay in the room upstairs instead of in a prettier room downstairs that she would prefer. She often keeps her views to herself or writes them down in

It is believed the narrator (sometimes identified as Jane) in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is diagnosed with temporary nervous depression after having a baby. Her husband, John, denies she has a “real” problem (Gilman 87). He takes

The next day she sees the woman struggling from inside the pattern and puts more effort into tearing the paper to let her out. The narrator believes she was also trapped in the wallpaper and thinks she finally set herself free. Lastly, her husband enters the room and after seeing the result of her insanity, he faints blocking her path from the wall, so she had to “creep over him every time” (Perkins

Her descriptions and obsessions with the wallpaper as viewed from her perspective, truly draw readers into her downward spiral to ultimate insanity. Readers follow her in her mind from a nervous condition through her mild subsequent pleadings for alternative treatment to eventually "creeping" through the wallpaper with her--experiences which readers grasp within a powerful narration indeed. Through her, and only her is precisely how readers clearly knew how she felt at the end when she says, "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!" (330). Husband John fainted, he had no idea she had gone that far, but readers did.

jane feels as though she is the woman in the wallpaper so no one else would understand the things she sees “There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will.”. and she hates the fact that it reminds her of herself this woman who is “stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit.” Trapped and suffocating like this hunched back woman without a voice to escape her prison bars that she hates so much. Just as jane is trapped in the small room with the discolored yellow

As stated before, the main character and narrator of the story, “Jane Doe”, has been confined in this house, where she chooses to mainly stay in her own room, in order to suppress her mental illness. Although the narrator claims she is improving day by day, readers can identify that she is indeed only getting crazier in spite of “the women” she sees behind the yellow wallpaper. The narrator fights the realization that the predicament of the woman in the wallpaper is a symbolic version of her own situation. The readers are compelled to determine from the narrator’s distraught writing style that there is not in deed a woman trapped in the wallpaper; the narrator just assumes there is as a result of losing her grip on reality. In a short fiction novel, two authors state that, “The creeping figure behind the paper trying to break through is the narrator’s double, and, as the narrator’s anger and hostility towards her husband gradually surface in the text so she assists the

She constantly refers to the fact that she is getting better the longer she continues to write but otherwise fails because she knows that it hurts John when she does. She outlines the details of her medication “i have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day”(43). In this case it appears that John somehow knows the narrator writes when he is not around. She has conflicting emotions that distract her from her writing. “i think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me”(45). Although she receives relief from her mental distress she is unable to write, possibly from the medication John gives her on a daily basis. There is a scene where Johns sister the house keeper enters the room and the narrator must hide her writings from her. “She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick”(46). In this instance it can be perceived that the housekeeper is one of the victims of being a subordinate domestic housewife. Although it is not directly stated it is inferred that if the narrator no longer tries to express herself through her writings and follows the values of the cult of domesticity she will be cured of her “nervous depression”. “This paper looks to me as if is knew what a vicious influence it had”. The

In Charlotte Perkins’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” the character Jane goes through a nervous illness, with which her husband tries to help her within the story. As Jane’s illness progresses, John shows different emotions through Jane’s nervous illness. John’s emotions greatly reflect on Jane towards the end of the story. Jane thinks her relationship with her husband John is oppressed by his speech, his actions, and his lack of understanding, but is it really just all in her imagination? This later leads to her insanity at the end of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

She thinks that the woman is trapped. Always aware of her presence, Jane notices details, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out” (Gilman 11). As her sense of reality changes so does she. This change in her perception is what allows the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” to transform.

In order to rest, a woman is taken by her husband to a country house. Her husband forbid her to write in order to avoid getting tired. She neglect the advices of her husband and keep writing secretly, but the wallpaper of the room where she resides puts her in deep discomfort. Since she can not write as she pleases, she projects her imagination and pain on the yellow wallpaper of her room, and begins to see monstrous human forms constantly in motion. Gradually, she becomes obsessed with this yellow, these figures, the smell of paper, until discerning the presence of a woman on the other side. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the fall into the madness of a woman,

Charlotte Perkins Gilman emotionally draws readers to the characters in “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” The unnamed protagonist of the story persuades readers to pity and empathize with her from the beginning of the story when she talks about her husband/physician, John, and her depression. She talks about how John is helping her by putting her on “rest cure” and keeping her locked in a room with no stimulation from the outside world when she says, “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I’m not sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition” (Gilman 315). When she describes her husband and blames her sensitivity on her condition, it is hard to read because everyone else can see that she should be angry with John and he is the main reason that she is in the mental state that she is in. What she characterized as “help” from her husband is clearly seen by the audience as harmful and

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a woman who is receiving treatments for her depression becomes more chaotic until her ultimate liberation. As the name of the narrator is not confirmed, Gilman journeys the readers through the narrator’s stream of consciousness and shifting tones on the way to the climax. The short story is written in first person, and present tense, for the narrator to describe what has or currently happened internally or externally. Throughout the story, the woman shares her opinions on her emotional state, justifying her personal description, her twisted relationship with her “family,” and the effects of her isolation and naivety, led by animosity, to her insanity.

The isolation and anger she feels is shown when she destroys the wallpaper. She knows that the condition she is suffering from is not her fault and that she has no control over it. Yet the one thing she has control over is her imagination and the yellow wallpaper. She increasingly became obsessive of the wallpaper, taking ownership of it and as she exclaims “I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself” (Gilman 653). Instead of her worrying about her role society, Jane breaks free from such societal expectations by ceasing to worry about keeping up appearances. She no longer cares about what her husband’s thinks or does and she does that by losing her mind. In a way, Jane is stronger than ever, she is no longer dependent on her husband and she finds comfort-belittling John by calling him young man. “From the helpless infant, supine on her immovable bed, she has become a crawling, "creeping" child, insistent upon her own needs and explorations” (Johnson 529). However, Jane used to creep by the night but now she does it in the daylight which shows that she does not care of anyone thinks and she proves that be creeping over John’s body, not caring whether is fine or