The Most Unreliable Narrator In The Yellow Wallpaper

Edgar Allan Poe was an extraordinary author whose horror and mystery stories leave an impression on readers even today. In some of Poe’s works, the narrator’s thoughts and actions make the reader question the narrator’s sanity. Two good examples are Poe’s poem “The Raven” and his short story “The Black Cat”; there is plenty of evidence to support that both of the narrators are not completely sane. In Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Black Cat,” both narrators exhibit symptoms of mental illness, including hallucinations, illogical thinking, mood swings, and substance abuse.

The narrator from A Tell Tale Heart is the most unreliable because he is in denial about his own mental health. The narrator in Strawberry Spring could be perceived as the most unreliable because he has not the slightest clue he is even a serial killer. Throughout the short story he has no recollection of the previous night's events where he committed murder to innocent people. However the narrator from

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the most unreliable due to the narrator's mental health problems. The narrator from “Tell-Tale Heart” could be argued as a more unreliable narrator by the narrator in “Tell-Tale Heart” having a possible mental health problem too, this may have led the narrator to kill the old man. But as I said, he may have a mental health problem, so there’s the possibility that he may not have one. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is not well enough to tell us the truth of what is going on in the story and what is going on with her situation. “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I CANNOT be with him, it makes me so nervous.” This quote from “The Yellow Wallpaper” shows us the extent of the narrator's mental health. The narrator states that it makes her nervous when she is with the baby (most likely due to her mental health problems), showing the problems that she has with responsibility, and a narrator must be responsible to be reliable. “The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The

The unreliable narrator of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a compound character, the most compound character I’ve encountered in any story. Not only is she unreliable, she is also said to be, by some, the insane character of the story. Contrary to the popular opinion, I presume she was just more herself by the end of the story and just held back by her husband, John and his overprotective and maddening tendencies of keeping her from being who she really was. Throughout the story, you begin to see that this is obvious she was held back from who she was because her husband wanted her to be something she wasn’t. Was the wall-paper a being of who this actual person, the narrator, was? Or was she simply just insane and the woman in the wall-paper was a figment of her imagination? By the end of the story she ended up being truly herself and the woman she was seeing in the wall-paper was a version of herself that she couldn’t show John. That she couldn’t show anyone, until she finds that little inspiration from a yellow wall-paper.

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent writer who wrote many peculiar and uncanny short stories and poems. One of the stories Poe wrote, “The Tell Tale Heart,” published in 1843, is about a narrator who is paranoid about an old man’s eye, so he decides to eradicate it. Another story by Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado,” published in 1846, is about a narrator who seeks revenge on his friend because, in the past, he was insulted by him. Both stories contain narrators, which are mentally unstable, but the narrator’s traits, their motives for the murder, and how their guilt is exhibited differ.

In the early times, men were very controlling. It did not matter what the matter was, men made the decisions. In Charlottle Perkins Gilman " The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader feels a little moody for the narrator when she realized how detached she is from working and having a mind of her own. The narrator's insanity is caused by her husband, the treatment prescribed for her, and her obession with the wallpaper.

Both lead characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are insane. The characters react similarly to their surroundings by becoming obsessed with one specific thing. The man proclaims to his audience that “It was

A common pattern stood out to me while reading The Yellow Wallpaper; one that made me believe the narrator was not crazy at all, but rather lonely. She mentions several times that she should disregard her writing to talk about the house, or suggest she should be focused on the traditional duties of women during this era. Often times, these feelings of loneliness and entrapment can trigger these feelings of depression or thinking one’s sanity is in jeopardy. The narrator talks about her husband

Mental illness is a prominent irregularity among the population. in many pieces of literature, authors often incorporate mental disorder to further humanize their characters. Ned Vizzini practiced this in his novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, as he described his teenage protagonist, Craig, throughout his suicidal episode. Shakespeare also portrays an example in his play “hamlet”, as Hamlet suffers with depression after the lose of his father.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story A Tell-Tale Heart, it would be easy to take the narrator's account as fact. In reality, Poe provides evidence that the narrator's version of the story should be taken with a grain of salt. Throughout the story, the narrator describes the events leading up to a murder that he committed. Upon reading the story, the reader should come to realize that the narrator is unreliable because he is insane, some of the events are unrealistic, and the details of his story are hazy. From the get go, the narrator makes it clear to the reader that he is insane.

Throughout the whole story, the narrator is not in her five senses. In other stories, events are given chronologically and the story is easy to follow. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman she gives us something to think about. She does not provide the narrator’s name, details of her child, or geographical location. The story starts by putting us into the narrators mind. She understands there is something wrong but can not exactly point out the real cause of her condition. Due to everyone catering to her and keeping her away from the real world, they cause the protagonist to lose it a little bit a time.

It has been shown throughout history and much of the nineteenth century, women were to be rated as second-class citizens. They are oppressed by the inversed sex to be known as “feeble.” In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses the narrator as the protagonist, to depict how women were represented during this period and time. The narrator, who is unnamed, starts off the story by telling of her husband in their summer home. Her husband is also a physician, who attempts to cure her nervous disorder by restricting her into a room which she is not allowed to leave. In spite the fact that the narrator struggles to fight her nervous disorder she, ultimately, tries to find a way to break free from her husband’s control. The

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for the feature of sinister elements, violent behavior, and psychologically unstable characters in his literal works. Two of Poe’s well-known literary works, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” both engage with narrators who are in an unhealthy state of mind. Both narrators successfully commit and conceal atrocious murders, but eventually, are exposed for their heinous crimes due to their own insanity. With “The Black cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe gives us two great examples of the human mind’s capacity to deceive itself, and its ability to speculate on the nature of its own destruction. Thus, this essay will present the ways in which Poe employs madness as a theme in “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

What makes a narrator unreliable? According to The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, an unreliable narrator is a character whose interpretation of events is different from the author’s. (Meyer,2014,195). It is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot be taken at face value. This may be because the point of view character is insane, lying, deluded or for any number of other reasons. ("What is an Unreliable Narrator? ," 2016, para. 1). In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” there is an unreliable narrator. What makes the narrator unreliable in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman is her mixed views on what is happening around her, her trustworthiness, and her mental health issues.

Edgar Allan Poe is an American poet well-known for his eerie and gothic based themes. In fact, his tales of mystery and horror were the first to give rise to detective stories. In his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), Poe invites us to experience a sinister and mystifying murder through the mind of the murderer, the narrator himself. This self-narrated tale takes place in a house that the narrator shares with an old man. The story’s focal characters are the narrator and the old man, both of whom are left nameless. It is probable that the narrator is telling the story from either prison or an insane asylum. He tries to justify his sanity; however, his actions prove otherwise. This tale revolves around the narrator 's passion to kill the old man because of his “evil eye” and the obsessed mind of the narrator who hears the beating of the dead man’s heart—solely within his own tortured imagination which causes the reader to question if the narrator is mentally sane or not. By analyzing how Poe’s early life influenced his work, I will demonstrate how Poe’s story engages readers with two widely occurring, but rarely explored elements of human experiences: a guilty conscience and the descent into madness. He takes his inner emotions to the extreme through his work and portrays the message that a guilty conscience will drive you insane. I will be analyzing how Poe’s early influences affect the