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The Yellow Wallpaper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” conveys an undeniably strong message from its writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ... Albeit subtle and discrete, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one of her earliest pieces foreshadowing these later actions. ...
To better understand the intent of this story, it must be known that the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a likeness of Gilman after the birth of her daughter. ... “The wallpaper…is torn off in spots…the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and there, and this great heavy bed, which is all we found in the room, looks as if it had been through the wars” (333). ...
The most important of these items described is the wallpaper. ... As in the title, the wallpaper is yellow. In the times of Hippocrates and his belief of the Four Humors, yellow bile of the human was thought to have “influenced a person’s temperament” thus “[causing] anger and a fiery temper” (School Science). ... As mentioned before, the wallpaper in the room plagued her. ... She smells “such a peculiar odor, too” (337), one that she describes as “a yellow smell” (337) which symbolizes the putrid, rotten life she truly believes she possesses.
Approximate Word count = 2004
Approximate Pages = 8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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