Sympathy For Jane's Illness In The Yellow Wallpaper

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Jane is a young middle-class woman who is suffering most likely from postpartum depression and her illness gives her insight into her situation that she has with society and in marriage, even as she continues the treatment it takes her sanity away from her. The struggle with Jane and her husband who is also her doctor, therefore the treatment of her illness leads to a big struggle with Janes mind between her understanding that she Is now powerless. This is a hard perspective when the narrator, Jane is slowly sinking into absurdity. The author uses first person to tell the story that allows readers to go into the absurdity and experiences a certain amount of sympathy for Jane. The constant use of “I” puts us right in the Janes mind and allows …show more content…

Jane starts to get yellow stains on Jennie’s and John’s clothes, and jane examines a curious, putrid smell to the yellow wallpaper that “Creeps all over the house”(14). In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the function isn’t limited to one room, it is spread throughout janes environment. ”The woman behind the wallpaper shakes it!” (15) jane observes the tough parallel by the yellow wallpapers pattern and prison bars once again. The woman in the wallpaper is “trying to climb through but the wallpaper strangles her.” (15) Because Jane cant speak about her own imprisonment the only way she can be feel free from her relationship with John is tearing at the yellow wallpaper to release her twin in the walls. “Her contradictions, however, are “unheard.” She can only counter John’s dictums literally by refusing to speak, or, metaphorically, by revealing the blankness behind the wallpaper.” (Trichler, “The Yellow Wallpaper”and Women’s Discourse).By Jane submerging herself in the woman in the wallpaper and giving herself completely over to craziness, she has proved that she out her own sanity into …show more content…

He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try. I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.” (23). At this point you can tell Jane is completely insane because John her husband makes all the decisions for her and she is kept in complete isolation, which was ultimately what was the downfall to janes physical and mental

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