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“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of a woman with psychological difficulties whose husband’s prescribed “treatment” of her mental illness sends her into insanity. ...
However, as the story moves on, the woman’s attitude toward the room with the yellow wallpaper begins to revert to utter confusion, disgust, and hatred. The yellow wallpaper is “repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. ... A yellow smell.” She becomes “really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.” The wallpaper is stripped off in places with “sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. ... ” She believes there are things and shapes behind the pattern in the wallpaper that only she can see. ... The wallpaper is in motion and she can see a faint figure behind the bars, shaking the pattern. The patterns seem to change by the amount of light on the wallpaper. ... The wallpaper constrains the woman or women and she believes that she must free those women by tearing off the wallpaper. ... ” She associates herself with the women and wonders “if they all came out of that wallpaper as I did?
Approximate Word count = 1093
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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