Who Is The Narrator In The Yellow Wall-Paper By Charlotte Perkins Stetson

The female narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” almost immediately tells the readers that she is “sick.” Being a physician of high standing, her husband diagnosed her condition as a temporary nervous depression with a slight hysterical tendency. He was not able to consider a more severe underlying mental disease that can result to more problems and complications when left unchecked. In her journal, she stated that she does not agree with the diagnosis and has her suspicions that the medical treatment needed for this type of diagnosis will not treat her. Having the correct medical diagnosis is crucial because once formulated, it will dictate the therapeutic actions that will be taken to treat the medical condition. The Yellow Wallpaper’s narrator had post partum depression.

She is also starting to think that the wallpaper is the reason that she is starting to like the room. There is a pattern on the wall that she follows for hours. The narrator is confused about pattern because it goes horizontal and she is trying to figure the direction that the pattern is going in. She is determine to come to a conclusion about the pattern on the wall. The narrator believes that the pattern that is on the wall moves at night so she is even more confused about the wallpaper. Also, the narrator will sometimes wonder why John or his sister has been affected by the room wallpaper.

She then determines that the figure that shows up behind the bars in the shadows is a woman, along with many other “creeping women” (Gilman 248). She finally realizes in the end her reflection on the wallpaper, is symbolic of herself and the situation in which she is placed upon. The woman is trapped within the wallpaper in the same manner as she is. They are not to escape and are forced to stay contained behind the shadows. She is told to stay in that bedroom for most of their time there because of the rest cure. Her mental thoughts begin to grow more paranoid the more her interest grows with the wallpaper. She mentions that the woman in the wallpaper shakes the wallpaper as if she wants to “get out” (Gilman 243), comparing the woman to a prisoner, unable to escape from the horrendous wallpapered room, much like she is. Soon after, she finally identifies herself as the woman in the wallpaper, living in a closed off, isolated

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character is believed to be insane and depressed by her husband, John, who is a doctor. The narrator was not insane or depressed, but rather suffered from feeling like her husband’s patient, and being constantly alone.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” was one of many short stories written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an ambitious female novelist in the 1890s aimed to change the aesthetic of womanhood. The plot is centered on a young, upper-middle-class woman, newly married and a mother, who is undergoing care for depression prescribed by her husband, John. The narrator’s mental health is defined when the family leaves to stay in a frontier estate after the birth of their only daughter. The confining walls of her room are subject to her abuse, reflecting her depression and wreckage that her mind and body encounter; although John perceives it as protection, it is actually the leading cause towards her deterioration. As each day persists, the narrator is consumed by the

With the narrator being locked away, she starts to become more intrigued with the paper because she cannot fulfill her passion of writing. The narrator loves to write and she hides it from John because she does not like making him mad. Her husband is a doctor so she is compelled to believe everything he says regarding her own mental state. John insists that her writing is what makes her condition worse. Charolette Perkins describes this when she writes, “There comes John, and I must put this away,— he hates to have me write a word” (319). The most compelling fact about her slipping more into insanity is that she is almost forced to stay amused by the wallpaper. She starts to concentrate more on the pattern and slowly makes judgements of what she sees: “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (320). There are multiple times throughout the story when she starts to see the wallpaper as something more than inanimate

The Yellow Wallpaper: The Consequence of Separating Illness and Disease The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, tells the story of a woman living with mental illness, which her husband describes as “temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 460). The woman and her husband John, a physician, are staying in a colonial mansion during the summer for three months. This unnamed woman is confined to a room with ugly yellow wallpaper for most of the day and is not allowed to do much physical activity besides roam around the house’s perimeter and garden. Her child has been taken away from her, and her husband wants her to solely focus on recovery in the three months they are staying in this house.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” follows the story of the narrator and her physician husband, John, who move to a colonial mansion shortly after the birth of their newborn baby in order to help his wife recover from hysteria and different forms of depression more than likely linked to postpartum depression caused by the recent birth. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about the progress to insanity and freedom. This story also shows how people tackle and deal with personal obstacles differently. Everyone deals with their personal obstacles in different ways; some people take longer and some people even ignore the trouble itself. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perfect example because there are several different obstacles throughout the story. The narrator, John

In the story, “The yellow Wall-paper”, we are introduced to a character, by the name of Jane, who is a well-educated and intelligent woman who suffers a slight hysterical tendency (Gilman 233). “Yet, her husband John, who is a physician …he does not believe I am sick!” (Gilman 233) Here, clearly we can see that Jane is a submissive woman who does what her husband tells her to do. In order to get well, she must obey her husband and be grateful for he knows what is best for her. Keeping Jane isolated made her depressed for she loved to interact with others and to write, which at times,

She begins to fixate on the yellow wallpaper that coats the walls of their room. She hates this wallpaper, specifically stating, “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (Gilman, 1892). However, over time she slowly begins to see herself in the wallpaper. She is living a life where she feels trapped; something is wrong with her and every time she tries to talk to her husband about it he tells her it is all in her head. She wants to get out, she wants to feel better, but her thoughts begin to take her into a deep downward spiral. She believes she is the one stuck behind the wallpaper and that those around her put her back in every night, “I’ve got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (Gilman, 1892). Her husband faints because at last he finally sees just how sick his wife really is (Gilman,

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. This story is about the narrator and her husband John who is a physician. The narrator and John move for a short while to what she refers to as a queer house because it was so cheap and has been unoccupied for so long. During this time the narrator is mentally ill and John doesn’t believe her. The narrator believes that one reason she does not get better is because he is a physician. John makes her stay in a room with awful yellow wallpaper that has a special meaning behind it and helps her recover.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a woman who is receiving treatments for her depression becomes more chaotic until her ultimate liberation. As the name of the narrator is not confirmed, Gilman journeys the readers through the narrator’s stream of consciousness and shifting tones on the way to the climax. The short story is written in first person, and present tense, for the narrator to describe what has or currently happened internally or externally. Throughout the story, the woman shares her opinions on her emotional state, justifying her personal description, her twisted relationship with her “family,” and the effects of her isolation and naivety, led by animosity, to her insanity.

The "Yellow Wall Paper "by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a chilling study and experiment of mental disorder in nineteenth century. This is a story of a miserable wife, a young woman in anguish, stress surrounding her in the walls of her bedroom and under the control of her husband doctor, who had given her the treatment of isolation and rest. This short story vividly reflects both a woman in torment and oppression as well as a woman struggling for self expression. The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the driving force in the story because it is the main factor that caused the narrator to go insane.

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator and her husband temporarily moved to a house out in the country. They rented the estate because the narrator was having problems with a “nervous depression” and because their house is being renovated. The narrator is given a treatment that tells her to do nothing. No working and especially no writing, only sleeping and eating. She feels, however, as though working or doing something will do her good, so she writes. She writes about how beautiful the house is, her condition, how her husband treats her, and about wallpaper. The narrator talks about the color of the wallpaper, the patterns on it, the smell, and the strange, dead shadowy figures she begins to see behind the pattern. The narrator shows an increasing obsession with the wallpaper. She

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is written from the perspective of a woman who is diagnosed by her physician-husband as having “a slight hysterical tendency.” The story is from her first-person perspective of this “temporary nervous depression.” Her husband John loves her, but is condescending: “He is very careful and loving and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (648). He calls her