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The Yellow Wallpaper
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” a participant narrator tells us the story of her experience in her gothic summer mansion. ... We understand clearly that she loathes the wallpaper in her room and that it gives her the creeps. As the story develops we see our participant narrator begin to covet the wallpaper. ... The first person – participant narrator point of view in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper” guides the reader through each step of the narrators transition from sane to insane and does it in a very detailed way. ... “The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow. ... The point in the story where she starts letting the wallpaper get to her is when she says: “This paper looks at me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had! ... She begins at this point to personalize the wallpaper. She gives the wallpaper a sense of life with: “ There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (597).
She begins to change her attitude about the wallpaper after the Fourth of July. She tells us: “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper” (599). Here we notice that she certainly has been spending too much time analyzing every detail of the wallpaper. ... Her closeness with the wallpaper is becoming blatantly obvious especially when she says, “There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will” (600).
Approximate Word count = 1275
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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