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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman’s obsession to escape the control the husband has over her. ... She is put in a child’s nursery that has yellow wallpaper, with an indescribable pattern, on the walls. The wallpaper slowly makes the narrator’s depression worse instead of better. ... She uses it to show the wallpaper as a symbol of patriarchy. At the beginning of the story the narrator is described as being unhappy with the wallpaper, but willing to deal with it. The wallpaper is described as “dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough constantly to irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions” (Gilman 596). ... As the protagonist’s psychosis progresses, she becomes fixated on the wallpaper and tears it down “a strip as high as my head and half way around the room” (Gilman 604). As the narrator tears down the wallpaper she is slowly gaining independence at the cost of her losing her sanity.
Approximate Word count = 861
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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