The Yellow Wallpaper
The main character of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has no name. This character greatly suffers because she is restricted from the outside world and she is prohibited from expressing her thoughts about her depression with people. She ends her suffering through the act of suicide. It was the only way she knew how to get out from behind the bars which John had created. John is her husband. "He does not believe (that she) is sick." He has convinced himself that she is not ill and he makes her do whatever he thinks is right in order for her to become well again. If he does not believe she is ill, then why is he attempting to make her well? He thinks that this illness is all in her mind. John believes that she is not physically or mentally sick but that she has convinced herself otherwise. He does not support or comfort her, besides, "he knows there is no reason (for her) to suffer, and that satisfies him." John is a physician. He keeps her isolated from the outside world and isolation is the treatment that he thinks will make her well. It is "absolutely forbidden (for her) to 'work' until (she) is well again." She is confined in a house all day, with the exception of her access to the yard. This i
She believes that "the front pattern (of the wallpaper) does move. " It has now become a challenge for her to save the woman who is trapped behind the bars of the wallpaper. It was disturbing and she thought another room would be more appropriate. When she first moved into the house, she despised the wallpaper. She did not desire nor deserve to be alone. " If she jumps out the window, people may think that it was an accident; they may think that she had just fallen. She desperately wanted to safe herself from her misery. " Her "nervous feelings are dreadfully depressing" and the journal is the only outlet she has to let out her true feelings. She destroys herself by being "securely fastened. "The paper looks to (her) as if it knew what a viscous influence it had. But nobody could climb through the pattern- it strangles so.
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