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In The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we have the narrator who suffers from temporary nervous depression and hysteria, and her husband, John, who is her physician. ... “I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me” (Gilman 1022)…
What I find very odd is that in the beginning, the narrator does not like the room at all, mainly because of the unsightly yellow wallpaper. “The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow” (1022)… But then, as the story progresses, she beings to like the wallpaper, “I am getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper. ... It seems that since she was forced by John to stay in the room, that she almost forced herself to like it, be intrigued by the wallpaper. She even starts to tell John what she sees in the wallpaper, and John gets terrified. ... Of course, in the end, we see a blatant example that she may be a tad crazy (that being her ripping the wallpaper down and believing that she was the one trapped in it), but maybe she was driven to that mental state by John. ... Especially if that room was as dreary as the narrator’s and if it contained hideous wallpaper that just got to you.
Approximate Word count = 1103
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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