Yellow Wallpaper
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"
During the story of "The Yellow Wallpaper," you begin to see that Charlotte had many internal struggles. The main one being that she is having a nervous breakdown while being kept in this horrid room with smoldering, unclean yellow wallpaper.
I think that there is defiantly an internal struggle with Charlotte; she just can't seem to get anyone to believe that she is sick, especially her husband John, whom is a Physician. Charlotte says, "If a Physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assure friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression, a slight hysterical tendency, what is one to do?" Think about that what is one really to do when no one believes that you are ill. Do you just sit there and act along with everyone else or do you do something about it.
Charlotte tries to do something about it, she tries to go out and be a normal woman, but John only lets her stir about with special direction. I think that Charlotte wants to be an independent persons but no one will let her. She struggles with the fact that she has to be kept locked up in that room staring at the smoldering unclean wallpaper, that has a pattern on it that plunge off at outrageous angle, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradiction.
The wallpaper eventually gets to Charlotte, she begins to see shadows of figures in the wallpaper, and one really sticks out to her...