yellow wallpaper

She has become so completely obsessed with the wallpaper that she believes it is alive. She says she can smell it when she is not there and she spends most of her time in the room with the yellow wallpaper. Throughout the second half of the story, Gilman starts referring to a woman named Jenny, who could possibly could be another personality living inside of Jane’s mind. In the last lines of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” we are led to believe that it is Jenny who is speaking. Jenny is a person inside of Jane that is being “trapped” by John and Jane, according to Gilman,“Jenny” says, "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!(320)" We do not know whether her name is Jenny or Jane, but this line explains that Jenny felt like they were being trapped in the wallpaper by John and Jane. We cannot say for sure, but this possibly could be all in Jane’s mind, and since John practiced medicine, it is possible that Jane is imagining this whole thing, and she could really be in an insane asylum. In the ending lines of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” it could also be possible that Jane commits suicide. We also could believe that she kills John as well. Jane says, “But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope-you don’t get me out in the road there.(320)” We could say that Jane or

The Yellow Paper is a symbolic story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a disheartening tale of a woman struggling to free herself from postpartum depression. This story gives an account of an emotionally and intellectual deteriorated woman who is a wife and a mother who is struggling to break free from her metal prison and find peace. The post-partum depression forced her to look for a neurologist doctor who gives a rest cure. She was supposed to have a strict bed rest. The woman lived in a male dominated society and wanted indictment from it as she had been driven crazy by as a result of the Victorian “rest-cure.” Her husband made sure that she had a strict bed rest by separating her from her child by taking her to recuperate in

Charlotte Gilman was an ingenious woman. On the surface, her most renowned work, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” appears to be a simple journal of a women struggling with mental illness. Throughout the story, her husband, whom is also her physician, coins her state as nothing more than a mere nervous disorder. He treats her with the “rest cure.” To begin her treatment, the couple temporarily moves to an isolated summer home, and as the days pass, the wallpaper surrounding their room becomes the item for which the narrator’s distraught mind becomes fixated. On the surface, this interpretation of the wallpaper seems feasible, due to the fact that Gilman

Finally by the end of the story Jane had totally isolated herself from the rest of society. When she first got to the house Jane loved visiting the garden and walking the lane leading to the house. The garden was described as being a delicious garden. By the end of the story Jane no longer wanted to visit the garden or walk the lane. She locked herself inside the nursery and had no interaction with anyone. Both of those places symbolized unity and the community to her. Since she was disassociated from society and the garden and lane represented society, Jane isolated herself from those places also. This disassociation with society is the final stage of her illness. Now Jane has become

She then becomes sure that John knows of her obsession and destroys the wallpaper by biting and tearing at the paper. She eventually goes utterly insane and is convinced she is the woman trapped in the

With John being a “physician of high standing” (Gilman), his role in the diagnosis of the narrator supports the claim of the stereotypical woman of the household being a “domestic slave” (Treichler) to the head of the household, who is stereotypically considered a man. John uses his medical diagnosis to exert control over his wife by telling her how she is to perceive, process, and act in her life. The female narrator, at first, is compliant with his orders. However, by her continuous action of writing in her journal, she defies John’s course of treatment. She must be sly about her writing for “John will not allow her to gain possession of her own language” (Suess). The narrator knows the circumstances of what writing in her journal entails, but to gain control of her own life is worth the cost so that her husband will no longer have control over her.

Feminist studies generally focus on the role that hysterical diagnoses and treatments played in reinforcing the prevailing, male-dominant gender roles through the subversion, manipulation and degrading of female experience through the use of medical treatments and power structures. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “ The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perfect example of these themes. In writing this story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman drew upon her own personal experiences with hysteria. The adoption of the sick-role was a product of-and a reaction against gender norms and all of the pressures and tensions that their satisfaction demanded. Gilman’s essay uses autobiographical experiences displayed as doppelganger quality the in the main narrator of the

Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the author displays the destructive outcomes of isolation, inequality, and limitations. Following childbirth and being committed to an imbalanced marriage, Gilman experienced a period of severe depression and was prescribed the rest-cure, complete bed rest and reduced intellectual activity, which stands as the basis for her short story. Due to the author’s personal experiences, she published “The Yellow Wallpaper” in 1899 to prevent other members of society from being driven to the verge of insanity and to demonstrate the kind of madness produced by the popular rest-cure. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work exhibits the inequitable social status of women in the nineteenth

     Vintage short stories are meant to entertain their readers. However, many passive readers miss the true entertainment that lies within the story in the hidden context. Most short stories have, embedded in the writing, a lesson or theme attached to them. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman demonstrates a woman who has suffered from repression and longs for the freedom from her controlling husband. Gender conflicts play a major role throughout this story. The author portrays these kinds of conflicts through the three main characters, John, Jennie and the narrator. The theme of this story is a woman's fall into insanity resulting from isolation from treatment of post-partum depression. Gilman is

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is about the internal struggle and confinement of a nameless woman. This woman confesses she is indeed not well and that her husband, John, who is a physician, diagnoses her with nervous depression. The treatment of said nervousness is where the story’s conflict arises. John decides his wife needs solitude in order to recover. He believes this solace will be found in an estate he rented. The narrator’s ultimate insanity is prompted by the isolation, denial, and self-judgment that she is forced into by her husband.

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman creates The Mother to recollect her own personal experiences with a new fictional spin. In the short story, The Mother searches for herself to escape the oppression of her husband, while she battles chronic depression. Because in the 1800s doctors did not understand how a woman could become depressed after bringing life into the world, The Mother is thrown into solitary confinement and treated as a crazy woman and child. However through writing, The Mother is able to escape her tragic realities, along with her depression and civil barriers of being a mother and wife. Gilman paints a story embedded with a writing motif; however the wallpaper on the wall is the key symbol because it both represents The Mother’s imprisonment and the means of escape.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short-story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was first published in 1892. This short-story is written in the first-person point of view. This helps show a collection of journal entries by a woman who is oppressed, suffering from what we now know as post-partum depression and denied a chance to express herself by her physician husband. This condition frustrates her health in the end, becoming psychotic and paranoid about any human contact, even delusional. She is locked in a solitary room for most of the story. She is only accompanied by old, peeling, yellow wallpaper. At the end of the story, the narrator talks about her freedom, further indicating the position of women at that time. This analysis of the short story focuses on the theme of gender brought forth in the story as well as the position Jane takes in furthering this theme.

She would write about everything that happened not to read it later but so she was more relaxed and could think a little clearer with whatever she wrote not in her mind. The whole story is her journal and she writes mostly about the wallpaper and how her husband is always gone. This journal idea is essential because we know what she is thinking and that really helps understand the story and her character better. Also, in order for her to forget about her surroundings she studies the wallpaper. This method, not unlike her husbands, just shows that she is avoiding the problem as well. She spends hours on end following the pattern of the wallpaper. The curves and patterns that go along it mystify her. This is avoidance from the obstacle at hand and she doesn't deal with them directly sometimes. However, unlike John, she always wanted to talk about her condition and other problems that they had. Her problem was when he just avoided the problem she just let it be when she should have persisted. Also, if she has an obstacle to get around, she focuses on that obstacle until she can clear it. This is shown with the lady in the wallpaper. All she thought about was the lady and how she could get her free from the wallpaper. She spent days plotting how to do so. And she persisted on it until the task at hand was completed. So although she has some traits that are the same as John's when dealing with obstacles, she also has some

While in this room she becomes obsess with the yellow wallpaper. As time goes on the John thinks the narrator is getting better, but she believes she is getting worse. Finally, the narrator goes insane and begins to rip the wallpaper off and starts creeping around the room and when John

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story told from the perspective of a woman who’s believed to be “crazy”. The narrator believes that she is sick while her husband, John, believes her to just be suffering from a temporary nervous depression. The narrator’s condition worsens and she begins to see a woman moving from behind the yellow wallpaper in their bedroom. The wallpaper captures the narrator’s attention and initial drives her mad. Charlotte Gilman uses a lot of personal pieces into her short story, from her feministic views to her personal attributes. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written from a feminist and autobiographical standpoint and includes elements, like symbols and perspective that the reader can analyze in different ways.