yellow wallpaper
A major theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is what the effects of solitary confinement and loneliness can do to a person. ... The main character is a mentally disturbed woman who is stuck in a room with yellow wallpaper. ... Right after moving into the mansion, she instantly becomes obsessed with the nursery room wallpaper with “sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin”. ... She is constantly analyzing the yellow wallpaper throughout her journal entries. Through the imagery that she writes of the wallpaper, the reader can see that it is a mirror of her own mental state of mind.