The Yellow Wallpaper
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The story is told in first person perspective, so there is no name for the narrator. In reading this story you kind of see the disparity between how the narrator interoperates things and events around her. We the readers can see how we interpret actions and events in the story. The readers would interoperate the actions of her husband not wanting her to write has him telling her to rest. She interoperates him not wanting her to write as him not wanting her to do nothing at all. She doesnt look at it as him caring for her. At the beginning of the story she is weak and becomes weaker as she sercums to the mental illness.
The way the narrator tell the story conveys she is very distraught and how her mental state is after the birth of her daughter. The narrator doses not realize that anything is wrong with her. She believes that exercise and congenial work are better for her than some tonic or pills. The over protectiveness of her husband and the birth of her daughter are the reasons she became mentally unstable. She became very depressed and started coming up with stories of a lady behind the wallpaper trying to get out. The narrator has a vivid imagination; the awful wallpaper in her bedroom is a motivation for her character. As the story proceeds, the narrator becomes delirious about the woman in the wallpaper. She says she thinks she sees her during the day, in the grape arbors and in the garden. Her mental state takes her so far that she has become obsessed with the ugly yellow wallpaper. She Talks about how the lines go on forever then suddenly drop off. Where she talks of the lady in the wallpaper”it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” this is a possible reason for her mental state getting worse.
We see the wallpaper as wallpaper but she has been so obsessed with it that she sees it as a real person behind the wallpaper. She begins to see the wallpaper as reasons for the actions in the house. Her husband treating her as though she were a child had a bit to do with her illness. Not to mention the birth of her child took its toll on her. Although she seems like a very intelligent and sweet person, she has her moments of sneakiness and mental downfall. She has to hide her writings in the story where she says “I must put this away; he hates to have me write a word.” She is determined person to be able to hide the fact that she is still writing with or without her husbands permission or approval.
The narrator seemed even though she was very determined to keep writing