The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gillman describes a miserable world of wealthy woman. A significance of her emotional condition and the life style she lives are very common in a late 19th century. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written by the first person narrator who has loving husband and beautiful baby. However, experiencing deep depression, she shares with us her feelings, thoughts and point of view. As we go through the story and getting more familiar with the main character, we start questioning whether this narrator is reliable. The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” presents us with a diary of a woman that she keeps throughout the summer. The geographical setting of her story takes us to “The most beautiful place!” (330), a country house, where after being diagnosed with “temporary nervous depression” and “slight hysterical tendency” (330), the woman is brought for “tonics, and air and exercise” (330), and being “absolutely forbidden to “work”” until she is well again. She is brought there by her husband in order to get cure by rest. Was he the right doctor for her? Or was his treatment efficient? “John is a physician, and perhaps […] that is one reason I do not get well f

The imagery style of the author to describe the hallucinations emphasizes the deterioration of the protagonist"tms condition. By her opinion, she is surrounded by imaginary figures that come to her out of wallpaper. He seems very queer sometimes, and even Jeannie has an inexplicable look" (336). She totally depends on her husband and has to agree with everything he says, even though she thinks differently. She is one of those "creeping women" who "creep so fast", who are not independent anymore and who have a husband but feel very lonely. The protagonist says: "It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw " old, foul, bad yellow things" (337). In fact, that is another aspect that Charlotte Gilman reflects in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper", the common 19th century attitude towards women and marriage. The narrator feels really sick and convinced that she would definitely feel better if she is allowed to lead a more active lifestyle. "The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell" (337). "" I wish he would let me go and make a visit "" (334). The yellow wallpaper is the symbol of the story. That is the irony of the story "The Yellow Wallpaper". Moreover, as the story progressing, we see how the illness, she is suffering from, getting worse. In addition, she doesn"tmt trust her husband even afraid of him or his sister, and hides her writings from them.