Yellow Wallpaper
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Setting Analysis of "The Yellow Wallpaper".
Charlotte Perkins Gillman writes the story of "The Yellow Wallpaper" in the form of the journal of the main character. Therefore, the reader's view is limited to the impressions of the main character, Jane. She is introduced as recuperating from a "nervous condition". Left alone in a yellow wallpapered nursery with the barred windows, she is treated like a combination of child and prisoner. She is denied her writing by her husband, which she feels gives solace and lends meaning to her life. She is denied friendship that could distract her from her preoccupation with her meager surroundings, instead she is forced into solitude. Void of any kind of healthy stimulus at all, she is compelled to provide her own. Jane finally crosses the border into insanity, until she entangles her own identity with that of the hallucinatory woman trapped in the wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper represent's Jane's imprisonment inside the nursery, from which she must b
Her first impression is that the wallpaper is ugly...