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The Yellow Wallpaper
The yellow wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays a woman who is suffering from “temporary nervous depression” and psychosis. The yellow wallpaper is a diary account of the womans summer at the colonial mansion. ... Gilman wrote the “The Yellow Wallpaper” to show how oppression can lead to insanity. She parallels the woman behind the yellow wallpaper to the woman in the story. ... It is in her room that she comes in to contact with the dreadful yellow wallpaper.
The yellow wallpaper is dreadful by all accounts given by the woman in her entries but it turns out to be her key to freedom. ... The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. ...
The woman begins to obsess with the yellow wallpaper. All of her strength is devoted to figuring out the patterns in the wallpaper. ... With all of her rest in the room she says “I’m getting rather fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper. ... I feel as though she is being tormented by the wallpaper when late one night she sees “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.” When John wakes to find her feeling the wallpaper, she asks him if they could leave the mansion but he only says to her “you really are better, dear, weather you can see it or not I am a doctor, dear, and I know. ... The wallpaper is her only way of communicating how she fells about her own life. ... ”
The woman is now distinguishing the differences between day and night in the wallpaper. ... She at this point really starts to turn herself into the woman that is behind the wallpaper.
Approximate Word count = 1486
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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