Critical Analysis Of The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In ?The Yellow Wallpaper? it seems that the narrator wishes to drive her husband away, spending the entire time hoping for freedom. She explains, ?John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious? (Gilman). She is glad to see her husband away so that she may be left alone to do as she pleases without interference from her husband. She is frequently rebelling against her husband?s orders. She writes in her journal and tries to move her bed when there is no one around to see. However, she always keeps an eye out for someone coming.

The narrator (jane) suffers depression from the birth of her baby. Her husband (john) did not let her do anything but lay in bed and rest. She wanted to go down stairs but John did not let her. John tried to figure out what was wrong with her and told her that she had hysteria then gave her a prescription that has her rest the whole day but after a while she got tired of just laying bed bed not doing anything. The narrator was talking about the yellow wallpaper the whole time. She starts to see a woman inside her yellow wallpaper she thinks the woman is struggling to break free. Jane tears down the wall paper to free the woman jane’s husband comes to take her home, but faints when she realizes that she has gone mad.

The short story The Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Gilman during the late 19th century. The story is told through first person point of view and is narrated by an unnamed character. Though the narrator seems to be suffering from depression at the beginning of the story, she seems to be otherwise sane and functional, but as the story progresses, it becomes clear that her mental state is deteriorating. By the novel’s end, the narrator completely unravels and loses all touch with reality. This display of insanity prompts the reader to reread the text and identify the places where the narrator started to lose her sanity.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman tells a psychological horror story depicting the narrator's descent into madness while struggling to recover from an episode of depression.

At the beginning of this short story the narrator critics the wallpaper describing it as, “a smoldering unclean yellow,” and, “children hate it,” which depicts the starts of her obsession. While the short story continues on it becomes a source of obsession where her husband notices her obsession and demands her to stop and behave like the ideal women. Even when her husband says to control her obsession, she decides to break free of her oppression inch by inch and secretly still obsess over the wallpaper. This obsession grows until she sees a woman in the yellow wallpaper trapped inside of it, at this point she has reached the brink of her obsession. She also decided to free the women inside the wallpaper but metaphorically she is releasing herself from all the pressure and demands of being the true women. “So that I had to creep over him every time,” Gilman depicts the narrator as truly the women trapped inside of wallpaper by connecting both of the women with using descriptions like ,”creeping over,” like when woman is captured in the wallpaper and with the narrator husband. The husband’s rejection of his wife obsession with the wallpaper show how women at this time were subjected to their husbands demand and not allowed to act on

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator throughout the story always hide what she was truly feeling from her husband John and sister-in-law Jennie. Since during that time period woman

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, recurring symbols such as the the wallpaper and its patterns, the woman trapped behind the wallpaper, and the narrator's husband John, demonstrates how the societal pressures on women were so severe in the 19th century that some women could only find liberation in their insanity. The narrator is very confined to her room because of the prescription given to her of the rest cure. She is bothered by most things in her room, but it is the yellow wallpaper that irritates her more than any of the other furnishings. In the beginning, her dislike for the wallpaper and its patterns seems to simply be an artistic critique. However, as the story goes on it becomes more and more personal to her as she describes the patterns as “torturing” (Gilman 653) and she begins to

The theme of a woman’s alienation from her own identity has been raised not once since feminist thought first emerged. However, few authors have managed to make it in such a symbolic manner as Charlotte Perkins Gilman does it in her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Written very much like as a stream of consciousness of the main character, a married woman spiritually entrapped by her husband, the story reveals the challenges and limitations which a woman faces. The narrator’s obsession with the wallpaper in her room has a deep symbolism, which stands for the loss of meaning and sense of living by her.

It seems that the husband oppresses and controls his wife in a very unfair manner throughout this story. He also keeps her away from other people and even if he has good intentions, he is isolating her from the outside world. The narrator says, “It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really well John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fire-works in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now”. She’s alone and her husband is manipulating her by being an overly controlling husband and denying her simple rights like writing.

The narrator's husband mental shapes how she sees herself. By her own husband not believing her it worsens her condition. The narrator starts to think that she may not have the right to be sick. That because this man in her life does not acknowledge her emotions it makes her feel inferior. Her husband demines her in everything that he does.

The “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman communicates it’s most prominent message throughout the story; that women are kept as prisoners in life and in marriage when forced to live a domestic life that lacks the opportunity for personal growth. The narrator’s husband likely believed that he was doing what was best for his wife. However, the gender oppression dictated during this short story's time period caused John's belief of superiority. The narrator’s husband, and men, in general, were given opportunities work, grow, and make connections outside the home, unlike women during this time. According to society, men knew better than women and according to the author, complete happiness is not possible in the life of marriage.

The wife told John that she was not okay. John being a doctor, instead of seeking someone who was trained in the field of mental health, took matters into his own hands. He thought that he the wife problem was not that severe and that he would be able to cure her himself. His solution to this problem was to put the wife in a room with very little and yellow wallpaper. This proved to not be very beneficial as the wife became worse. The wife was also a writer and so john took the ability for to write. This also, affected the wife because she was not able to communicate her thoughts and feelings. SHe would use writing as a way to do that and when took that away from it felt the wife had lost a piece of herself. John is an example of the stereotype in the 1950s where women were expected to whatever the husband said and keep quiet about it. The wife still finds to keep writing even after John took her journal away. She hides a journal from John so she can still because she that it helps ease the depression. After being in the room for so long. The narrator becomes increasingly interested in the yellow wallpaper the longer she is in there. Into the the Wife becomes more upset over johns patronizing ways of handling her. John is the stereotypical 1950s husband. The Wife knows that wall paper has become a problem and she tries to ask to John to repaper he refuses to. By

In The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator address a conflict with her husband, who belives that her

All the difficult details of the narrator’s wife’s past, including her marriage, suicide attempt, and divorce, have been recorded and sent to Robert, who has recorded responses in return. Robert is the person to whom the narrator’s wife has turned to when she needed to talk. The narrator’s wife is glad to see him, but since he cannot see her, their interaction is only slightly different from the back-and-forth conversation they’ve been carrying on through the tapes. I believe that the relationship between the Robert and the narrator’s wife very healthy. This makes the narrator extremely jealous of their relationship, “They talk of things that had happened to them – to them! – These past ten years. I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife’s sweet lips.”(37) His relationship with his wife has been extremely distant because of his inability to focus on her instead of his drugs ,“And I guess I was. Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep. My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time.”(390)

In the story, the narrators view of the “wife” is not very admirable. Almost everything she either says or does is childlike. The conflict of feeling emotionally separated from her husband no doubt