Yellow Wallpaper Reflection

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

Trapped in the upstairs of an old mansion with barred windows and disturbing yellow colored wallpaper, the main character is ordered by her husband, a physician, to stay in bed and isolate her mind from any outside wandering thoughts. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, describes the digression of the narrator’s mental state as she suffers from a form of depression. As the story progresses, the hatred she gains for the wallpaper amplifies and her thoughts begin to alter her perception of the room around her. The wallpaper serves as a symbol that mimics the narrator’s trapped and suffering mental state while she slips away from sanity reinforcing the argument that something as simple as wallpaper can completely

The "Yellow Wall Paper "by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a chilling study and experiment of mental disorder in nineteenth century. This is a story of a miserable wife, a young woman in anguish, stress surrounding her in the walls of her bedroom and under the control of her husband doctor, who had given her the treatment of isolation and rest. This short story vividly reflects both a woman in torment and oppression as well as a woman struggling for self expression. The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the driving force in the story because it is the main factor that caused the narrator to go insane.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a creative woman whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her in order to keep her within society's norms of what a wife is supposed to act like, only lead to her mental destruction. He is more concerned with societal norms than the mental health of his wife. In trying to become independent and overcome her own suppressed thoughts, and her husbands false diagnosis of her; she loses her sanity. One way the story illustrates his dominance is by the way he, a well-know and

The purpose of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is to tell the reader that you can have negative effect on someone’s mental health if they are denied their freedom of expression. This is because the narrator (Jane) was kept in a room that had yellow wallpaper, which she did not like. Soon after being unable to work or write Jane began to see creepy figures in the wallpaper and everyday it got worse, she soon began to see a women trapped in the wallpaper. This began to feed her hallucinations and paranoia that someone else is going to find out about this women, and help her escape the yellow wallpaper. This made Jane insane, she would see women walking around outside, and she soon became addicted to the room and writing about the wall in her journal.

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.

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 Yellow Wallpaper” tells of the journey into insanity (brought on by postpartum depression?) of a physician’s wife. Persuaded by her husband that there is nothing wrong with her, only temporary nervous depression, a diagnosis that is confirmed by her brother( Gilman, 647). What is telling is that she suspects perhaps her husband John is the reason she does not get well faster. She and/or we are led to believe that they have rented a colonial mansion for the summer for her to get well. She is however isolated in a home three miles from the village and on an island. (Gilman, 648). She wants to stay in the downstairs room with roses and pretty things, but her husband insists on the room at the top of the house ostensibly because it has room for two beds. But the room’s description of barred windows and walls with rings and things in them (Gilman, 648) could leads the reader one to conclude that this is his own private asylum, and not “a nursery first and then a playroom and gymnasium” (Gilman, 648) as the woman believes. It is this room, and more precisely the wallpaper in the room

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a detailed story of a woman named Jane who wants to be obedient to her husband as a result of the pressures of society in her time, but in the process, Jane descends into insanity because her husband is ignorant of what is really ailing her. Jane starts out seeming as though she is simply suffering from a nervous condition, but we find that that is not only the case. Though Jane wants to be loving and obedient to her husband, by following his guidance she spirals into an unrealistic reality, and therefore, becomes mentally ill and unstable. Jane wants to be a loving, submissive wife, but in the process, she becomes even more ill. It is not that John is uncaring or an ineffective doctor, but in the 1800’s, medicine

This response will describe her and the husband and prove what caused her crazy mental illness. As well as why she written “The Yellow Wallpaper”. As the reader, we never found out the wife’s name. She is a young, married, and upper-middle-class woman.

[Rough Draft] Critical Essay [Short Story] The yellow wallpaper [Thesis] In the following essay, Martello-Wramage argues the assumption that the narrator becomes hopelessly insane by the end of the story, the mistreatment she experienced by her husband slowly lead her into a nervous breakdown and that there are fine signs that point to narrator's behavior that indicate her mental breakdown was not insanity, but a sudden epiphany.

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Gilman about an oppressive husband and his treatment towards his mentally ill wife. Gilman based her story on her own experience with the rest cure for mental illness. She received a lot of criticism from the average person as well as physicians since she was speaking about the controversial treatment of women during the late 1800’s. She defended her work with this statement, “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy.” (Gilman, 1913)

The first time I read “The Yellow Wallpaper” I thought it was weird and confusing. My first impression about the narrator was that she was crazy. I did not understand why the narrator’s husband made her stay alone in a bedroom upstairs or why she was seeing people behind the wallpaper. However, I do know that she was trying to help them escape, but I am not sure why. I was also unaware of what was causing her to be crazy. I knew the narrator was suffering from postpartum depression, but I did not know what postpartum depression was. I was not sure how postpartum depression could affect someone or how someone could prevent it from occurring. I think “The Yellow Wallpaper” has two major themes. I think these important themes are the negative effects of the resting cure and the need for self-expression. Everyone, both men and women, needs to communicate and be actively involved in their everyday lives.

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