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“The Yellow Wallpaper”, by C. ...
The wallpaper in the room is driving the narrator to insanity because it symbolizes female suppression. The narrator describes her room, focusing solely on the wallpaper itself, as being “almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow” (596). ... The wallpaper, a usually feminine, floral decoration on the interior of walls, can be interpreted as a symbol of female imprisonment. After being in the mansion a few days, the narrator begins to see a figure in the wallpaper that resembles a trapped woman. ... The “woman behind shakes [the wallpaper]” (603) in the night when the room is dark and moonlit. ... The narrator sees bars in the wallpaper trapping the woman in the same likeness that there are bars on her bedroom window, trapping her inside. By the near end of the story, the wallpaper completely takes over the narrator’s mind. ... She finishes ripping every last piece of the wallpaper off the walls and begins to creep along a path around the room. ... Being a victim of female suppression lead the narrator in the story to insanity through the help of her husband, John, and the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom.
Approximate Word count = 1077
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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