'The Lady Behind The Yellow Wallpaper'

    "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes a close look at one woman's mental deterioration. The narrator is emotionally isolated from her husband. Due to the lack of interaction with other people the woman befriends the reader by secretively communicating her story in a diary format. Her attitude towards the wallpaper is openly hostile at the beginning, but ends with an intimate and liberating connection. During the gradual change in the relationship between the narrator and the wallpaper, the yellow paper becomes a mirror, reflecting the process the woman is going through in her room.

Not only does the yellow wallpaper represent how the narrator feels physically trapped by the room but also how she feels oppressed by society. Through out her

Trapped in the upstairs of an old mansion with barred windows and disturbing yellow colored wallpaper, the main character is ordered by her husband, a physician, to stay in bed and isolate her mind from any outside wandering thoughts. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, describes the digression of the narrator’s mental state as she suffers from a form of depression. As the story progresses, the hatred she gains for the wallpaper amplifies and her thoughts begin to alter her perception of the room around her. The wallpaper serves as a symbol that mimics the narrator’s trapped and suffering mental state while she slips away from sanity reinforcing the argument that something as simple as wallpaper can completely

The yellow wallpaper in the room shows, symbolically, the narrator was being oppressed. The narrator hated the wallpaper because she saw herself as a prisoner of her own husband. Spending so much time in the room, the narrator studied the wallpaper in details and found the wallpaper somewhat represents her. "There is one place where two breadths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other" (pg280), "Such a peculiar odor, too" (pg 285) etc. The confusing pattern, the bar, the woman behind the bar, and the yellow color of the wallpaper allowed her to feel so helpless, as if she was a bird

As the reader is introduced to the main character in the story, she is heard talking about strange things happening around her. She secretly wrote her thought in a journal but her husband was against it and never wanted her to do anything. The nameless narrator in her madness sees a woman in the pattern of the wallpaper. In addition, she sees the woman struggling against the bars of the paper and this is a symbol for the struggle of women who attempt to break out from the infringing rules of the society. The woman the narrator sees caught in the wallpapers also parallels her virtual imprisonment in an isolated estate away from her child by her mean husband.

The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" becomes haunted by the wallpaper in her room. The setting takes place in the room, she dislikes the room from the moment she sees it and fells suffocated by it. Her feeling of suffocation and being haunted by the wallpaper helps the reader become more aware of her motivation for tearing the wallpaper down.

The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman discovers that the woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper is really herself and reflects that there are countless other women trapped and oppressed by society just as she is. Through her descent into madness, the narrator is able to finally free herself, but not without losing her sanity in the process.

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is told she needs to rest constantly to overcome her sickness, so she is forced to stay in the old nursery where there is yellow-orange wallpaper with a busy, obnoxious pattern that she hates. She tries to study the wallpaper to distinguish the pattern, and as time goes on she believes she sees a woman moving around in the background of the pattern. Also, during this period of time the character’s condition is worsening, because her husband is causing her mind to weaken by not allowing her to exert herself at all; he says she is not to think about her condition, walk through the garden or visit family. All she can do is sleep and trace the wallpaper, and being cooped up in the room causes her to begin hallucinating. The narrator sees the woman trying to escape from the wallpaper throughout the night, and she ultimately completely breaks down and believes that she is the woman.

In the story, the wall was completely covered in yellow wallpaper, but it can be inferred that imagery was used by the author to explain that the wallpaper represents women in the late 19th century that they were under controlled by men having no rights of freedom. The wallpaper in the story was described in patterns seen by the wife throughout the story. It described that the wife saw a woman trapped behind bars, which this is a form of imagery since it is trying to show readers that the women in bars is the wife being held in

Similarly, “The Yellow Wallpaper” symbolizes the trapped narrator with an urgency to escape from her dwelling. Like Elisa, the narrator finds a task that would keep her boredom away as “life is very much more exciting than it used to be” (443). By staring at the wallpapers pattern constantly all day, she is no longer bored. In addition, the narrator believes that in order to escape she must free the woman behind the wallpaper. The narrator turns insane by visioning a woman in the wallpaper and trying to escape. The narrator is imprisoned, and the bothersome patter of the yellow wallpaper begins to straighten out to her. The narrator finds a channel of hope outside the windows, through the bars, wanting to leave the room and depart into the real world. Both Elisa Allen and the narrator feel a need, a desire for an escape from their current lives.

The yellow wallpaper is a symbol of oppression in a woman who felt her duties were limited as a wife and mother. The wallpaper shows a sign of female imprisonment. Since the wallpaper is always near her, the narrator begins to analyze the reasoning behind it. Over time, she begins to realize someone is behind the

As of yet, the connections between the wallpaper and the narrator aren’t easily visible, but soon it becomes much more apparent. Very quickly, the story shifts. She now sees a woman behind the wallpaper. “it is like a woman stooping around and creeping about behind that pattern. I

Sometimes when one concerns too much about the views of others on heroneself, it is difficult to remain true to her oneself. Such as the woman in the text “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she attempts to pay no attention to her mental illness in order to cater for the opinions of others. Therefore, the woman trust her husband and always listen to him, so she does not consider her own opinion, “[The narrator]so I takes phosphates or phosphites- whichever it is...” she continues taking the drug even though she does not know the name of the drug and what is it for, she is lack of her own decisions. However, compares to the poem “The Type” by Sarah Kay, she states a woman should act by her own ideas, and not to live in the

In this short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper", there aer these two different patterns of wallpaper up on the wall that the narrator resides in. The sub-pattern is one of those patterns that definitely appears to be a woman who tries her best to escape out from behind the main pattern of the wallpapers. In this story, the narrator; whom is not named, sees this same woman in the sub-pattern of the wallpaper. She sees this person in the wallpaper creeping or even lurking around in the day when she is able to escape for a little bit, while at night time the narrator sees her shaking the bars violently as if she is trying to get out of the wallpaper. In this

In the Yellow Wallpaper the woman is discovering her self caught. In life many people who are disheartened and miserable become involved with their own personalities. Trying to find ways to escape from the madness but, its easily said then done. This woman is seeing herself in the wallpaper attempting escape her agony. When she began peel off the paper and the woman is in like manner tearing it from inside, she envisions that the woman is helping her, notwithstanding it's herself attempting to get away.