Isolation In The Yellow Wallpaper

After securing herself in the room the narrator says, “I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard”! She has began to believe that the women behind the wallpaper is herself and that she must return to her rightful place come night fall, proving that she has gone completely mad. The character’s illness develops form her paranoia and curiosity about the ‘trapped women’ within the wallpaper to

Through out the story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the film, “Santa Sangre,” the main characters finds themselves led into a state of insanity. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator explains that she is suffering from post partum depression, leaving her husband to treat her with rest cure or bed rest. During this time, she is placed in a solitary room with walls covered in yellow wallpaper. Similarly, through out “Santa Sangre,” Phoenix grows up with his family in a circus, only to end up losing them. He was locked in a trailer as his father had an affair, murdered his mother by cutting off both her arms and then committed suicide in front of Phoenix. He is then

Firstly, by examining the symbol of the woman trapped behind the wallpaper, one can see that the narrator feels trapped and is trying to free herself from an oppressive society. The woman trapped behind the wallpaper represents the narrator herself, and by freeing the creature behind the wallpaper, the narrator would be able to free herself from being oppressed. Throughout the story, the woman behind the wall has no identity, as she is faceless and cannot speak, she crawls inside the wallpaper, and she also becomes visible to the narrator only during certain times of the day, more specifically during the night. She parallels the narrator herself because the narrator has no real identity, as she is not allowed to express herself because her husband does not allow her to write and she only follows her husband's rules, not what she desires to do for herself. The narrator also only feels free to come out and become visible to others only during the night time, because during that time she is not monitored by others, and during the day she cannot leave the house, resulting in her only moving between rooms inside, which resembles the crawling around the wallpaper of the woman behind it. At the beginning of the story, the narrator does not clearly see the woman behind the wall, but as the story continues she is “...quite sure it is a

My perspective of Gilman’s short story, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is influenced by a great number of different and diverse methods of reading. However, one cannot overlook the feminist theorists’ on this story, for the story is often proclaimed to be a founding work of feminism. Further, the historical and biographical contexts the story was written in can be enlightened by mentioning Gilman’s relationship with S. Weir Mitchell. And I can’t help but read the story and think of Foucault’s concept of Panopticism as a method of social control. Lastly, of course, there’s the psychological perspective on the story, although in my readings of psychology, particularly the psychological knowledge surrounding both women and queers, I find the

The Yellow Wallpaper Evaluation and Analysis Heather K McNair University of Nevada, Reno The Yellow Wallpaper Evaluation and Analysis The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is a fascinating short story written from the perspective of an oppressed woman suffering from a mental illness. This paper begins by providing a summary of the short story, and then breaks into a brief character description. Then this paper analyzes The Yellow Wallpaper from a gendered and sociological perspective. Summary

Analysis of the Short Story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Originally published in January 1892 issue of New England Magazine. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was personal to her own struggles with anxiety and depression after the birth of her daughter with her first husband and S. Weir Mitchell 's "resting cure" treatment she received. The Yellow Wallpaper describes, from the patients point of view, the fall into madness of a woman who is creatively stifled, intellectually dismissed by her doctor husband, removed from her intellectual support system, and left to feel ashamed of her lack of interest in fulfilling the expected paternalistic culture of that time period (Gilman). Taking

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story of a young woman who suffers from a nervous and mental breakdown. Her husband John, who is also her doctor, is the most troubling aspect in her life; for he is in control of the narrator’s life and body. John belittles the narrator’s condition countless times and prohibits her from writing, working, and seeing her family members. She is kept imprisoned in every aspect of her life, but mostly in her marriage and in her house. The narrator is confined in a nursery with barred windows and yellow wallpaper in a mansion that she describes as a “haunted house” (Gilman 111). With little to do and no one to talk to, the narrator blankly stares at the yellow wallpaper day after day; She confides in no one but dead sheets of paper. Throughout the story, the narrator is unhappy and states over and over again how she wants to leave, so why doesn’t she? The frightening and obscure answer is that John is not really her husband. John is her abductor.

Therefore, her condition becomes worse, now she is more passive, more reserved, however the husband takes her passiveness as the effect of treatment. The previously child nursery, where his wife spends her time, turns into a jail cell for her. The Yellow wallpaper and bars on windows irritate the situation. Its the wallpaper that becomes the part of her insanity, yellow wallpaper that encloses the character and becomes a part of her life. The reader sees how the woman in time goes crazy; it creates a heavy feeling. When the narrator starts to observe another lady in the wallpaper, readers no see that the character is completely mad. “There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” Eventually the narrator starts to become more and more attached to the pattern of the wallpaper, she sleeps less and can only think about the woman in the wallpaper. Then the author of the story shows the worst of the entire women's life by a sour paradox that is spoken in the narrator’s words: “Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be.” The fact that now, being insane, poor the woman feels happier, shocked, and

Her husband lacks compassion to her illness, and will not let her do anything but sleep. She is not allowed to write; writing is her passion. To me the meaning behind the short story is deep. This woman is confined to her bedroom where she goes insane. she grows obsessed with this yellow wall paper as a distraction to being jailed to her room. At first she hates the color of the wallpaper but as the story goes on she grows to appreciate it. She looks deep into the wall paper and starts to see patterns and shapes. The more she becomes obsessed with this wall paper the more her health declined, she becomes crazy. She thinks she she's a woman behind the wall paper trapped behind bars. The deep meaning behind this story is that the woman she see's in the wallpaper is really herself being trapped with her marriage. Both woman desperately wanting to get out. This story relates to changing ways of thinking about the self and consciousness because she goes mentally crazy over the yellow wallpaper and her perception of the paper is that there is a woman stuck behind it trapped behind bars. It also relates to that because of the psychology that is going on. Her head isn't right, she's been trapped in her room and she's going crazy. This story relates to our class theme Diverse Voices because of her sexuality she did not have much control over the situation. Since she was a woman she was

I believe the lady behind the yellow wallpaper is the narrator. Due to her being locked up in her room all day, she starts to lose her mind, and I believe her imagination takes over and start seeing a person in the wallpaper. The narrator becomes very fascinated within the wallpaper. I believe she starts to see the wallpaper as a representation of herself, because she is wanting to be free, because she is trapped and feels like she doesn’t have any freedom. The narrator seems to make a acquaintance within the wallpaper and she is determined by any mean to set the women loose behind the wallpaper. I assume that the narrator looks out through the bars and sees herself in her subconscious mind, because she feels like she is locked up in a prison.

At first, she disliked it, but as she kept staring at it she began to see a woman trapped inside. In some other occasions she sees the woman creeping outside. “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” (318). At this point the reader begins to wonder if perhaps the narrator is telling the truth or it’s just a product of the narrator’s imagination. The women that creeps out during the day might symbolize the narrators daily life, when her husband is not at home she can escape and wonder around the house. However, when the husband is at home and she tries to talk to him she might feel trapped just like the women in the wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper was a clear symbol of her repression and perhaps she sees reflected her own life in it. It can also be interpreted in different ways since it is clear that at this point she has become an unreliable source. The idea of a woman trapped in wallpaper was a clear sign that there was something wrong with the narrator and that perhaps she was using this to try to express her

During the last couple of weeks, the narrators believes that there is a woman in the wallpaper that is holding a woman or sometimes many women behind it. At night the woman is stuck in the wallpaper but she is free during the day and this raises the narrator’s spirits as she plans to free the woman before she must leave the mansion. “I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent of excuses, and I’ve caught him several times looking at the paper! And Jennie too.”(Gilman

In the story “the yellow wallpaper” the narrator and her husband john go to a summer house so that the narrator can heal her nervous depression. Her husband john is a doctor and feels it is best that she is confined to bed rest and cannot work or write. The nursery room she is in has a wallpaper that the narrator finds revolting and asks john to change it and he doesn’t change rooms or take the wallpaper down. This causes her condition to worsen and she has become obsessed with this wallpaper. She writes in a secret journal expressing her anger and hatred of this wallpaper. As more days pass and her condition only getting worse she starts to see images and figures in the patterns of the wallpaper. She sees bulbous eyes and breaking necks as

In the novel, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator and her husband move into a marvelous house. The narrator suffers from depression and is ordered by her husband to get plenty of rest and is not allowed to work and write. Despite her husband’s orders, the narrator begins to write in her secret journal. In her journal, the narrator describes the house. At first, her descriptions of the house where positive with minor disturbances like the bars on the window and the “rings and things” in the walls, but is then specifically disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the room. Because she was not allowed to write, the narrator becomes good at hiding her journal. Weeks pass and the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She fantasizes and begins to see images in the wallpaper. For example, “two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down”, and is later convinced that there is a woman trapped behind the wallpaper. In her writings, the narrator mentions that she would see the woman trying to break free by shaking the bars at night and roaming around the wallpaper in the day. On her last day in the house, the narrator decides to lock herself in the room and peel of the wallpaper from the walls in order to set the woman free. When her husband breaks into the locked room, he is horrified by what he has seen. The narrator creeps around the room, “I’ve got out at last in spite of you and Jane”, the narrator said. Her husband faints, yet she continues to creep around the room non-stop

The last part of the work narrates the relationship between the narrator and the woman trapped in the wallpaper. The narrator begins to find parallelisms in their actions. For example, she says that both women crawl during the day in secret from the rest of the people. Another indication of this connection between both women is the decision of the protagonist to help escape the woman trapped into the drawing. To achieve this, she has to strip the wallpaper off. The narrator feels she must do it herself: “I don’t want anybody to get that woman out at night but myself.” (Gilman 27) From now, the identity of the narrator and the woman on the wallpaper begins to intertwine. The first sign of this identity exchange takes place while the narrator