Outline For The Yellow Wallpaper Essay

Introduction

Topic Sentence – In the yellow wallpaper, Charlotte Gilman does a splendid job using her story to express the portrayal of gender roles, also how women both felt and viewed in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

General Exposition – during the events in the yellow wallpaper, the narrator is forced to keep her inner feelings buried, causing them to build up, and leading to her insanity.

Narrow the Focus – Some of the main elements you encounter in the yellow wallpaper are the tone, allegory and imagery, which are key parts to the story.

Thesis Statement – The author uses the short story as a representation of the inner thoughts and experiences of females using hidden connotation, irony and mental images to demonstrate the inequality and

hardship women’s had to deal with in the late 19th century.

Body
A.

Tone

1. The narrator sets a tone that makes it seem like the husband is real loving and caring, that she truly is physically ill, and that there is a women actually trapped in the wallpaper.

2. The true tone of the narrator is irony, which is used constantly through the story.

3. “You know the place is doing you good”

4. The irony the narrator uses references to the women’s struggle in the 19th century marriage

B. Allegory

1. Involves The women who creeps about in the wallpaper, locked behinds bars in the repetitive pattern

2. Symbolizes the oppression of the women in that generation that women were not given rights they truly merited; change was not happening.

3. “There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day… And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern”

4. Constantly in the story the narrator is showed being oppressed, having to do everything the husband said, having no true rights.

C. Imagery

1. Uses detailed visual imagery to illustrate what the narrator or women in general, are truly going through in that era.

2. Such as the yellow wallpaper pattern and how the women is stuck

inside.
3. “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out”
4. Many visual elements in the story where used to show the inner thoughts and feelings of a
D. Explanation of How Elements Tie to Theme
1. All elements lead to the women’s life in a marriage from the early ages, with the lack of self-expression and an unavoidable domestic life that many women become victims of
2. Each elements builds up on each other and the true meaning behind this short story.
Conclusion
1. In the end, the author used this story with the use of some allegory, tone and imagery to get us an understanding on how unequal women were to men and how they encountered constant adversities in the late 1800s
2. Showed how tough a woman’s life was previously when they were classified as second class citizens.
3. women where constantly endeavoring to gain true equality, to express themselves without the fear of persecution.