The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis Essay

The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The narrator of the story is anonymous. Narrator’s husband John prescribes her to take rest so, John rented a colonial mansion to relieve her temporary nervous depression. Her husband and brother have diagnosed her ailment. The narrator feels that she is very ill but is always dismissed by her husband and brother. The story is about a woman who begins to go insane as she starts to be fascinated by imaginary things she sees in her wallpaper. Not long after her fascination with the wallpaper begins, the woman starts to see a woman behind it who seems to be creeping and narrator starts to merge herself and wallpaper women. The images behind the wallpaper represent the narrator's struggles dealing with depression. The narrator gets progressively worse throughout the story as her feelings downward spiral.

Imagery, character, and theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” explores the idea of life insanity but also freedom.
The imagery in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the yellow color of the wallpaper and pattern. The narrator starts associating the wallpaper with her feelings as she is angered by it. The narrator also begins hallucination to see living things such as eyes and women in the wallpaper. Because of her sickness, she is encouraged by those around her not to write, and so must hide when doing so. According to Narrator, “The pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down”(475).The relation between the visual patterns of the wallpaper is different than the smell of the wallpaper. The smell of the yellow all over the house, and it's not very unpleasant smell but the feel of the paper as she traces the pattern is negatively affecting her senses and her mind. The pattern of the wallpaper is formless and it fascinates the narrator as she attempts to figure out how it is organized. Within the pattern, she focuses on the desperate woman looking for an escape behind the patterned wallpaper. The narrator examines the yellow color as an ugly yellow not very beautiful and bright because often yellow color is energetic, it could be sun live giving. According to a narrator,“The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight”(474). Each woman is trapped in imprisoned by the barred windows and pattered off the wallpaper her insanity manifests as she begins to peel away the wallpaper.
The main character is an anonymous young married woman and a mother in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.

The second character is named John and narrator's husband. The narrator soon begins to see a figure in the wallpaper. This figure conveys what the narrator is actually feeling, hiding what she really feels and wishes to do with her life. The narrator is actually feeling depression and mania by getting trapped in the room because she doesn't want too. The narrator hides her feeling from her husband because although he loves her, and care about her, he does not understand her. He thinks she's a woman she doesn't know anything, I am the man only my thoughts and decision matter that consider feminist criticism. According to a narrator,”he does not believe I am sick”(473). The narrator wishes to escape her room, so she scratches the wallpaper because she sees herself in that woman. If she can take out the woman that trapped by bars, from wallpaper, then she can release herself from that room and her depression. According to a narrator,”I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the

floor”(482).
The author message in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the pattern of the yellow wallpaper explores the criticism and gender discrimination. It reveals that the story during the time when women are captured in a situation, where women's does not have right to make her own decision and cannot speak in the family problem. According to a narrator, “there are so many of those creeping women and they creep so fast”(482). Women felt trapped as like behind the wallpaper because society controlled and judged to the lives of women and most important for innovative women and women who are not obedient to their husbands.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” analyzed by using the element imagery, character, and theme that conclude the criticism on gender Women needed to have the opportunity to work, to grow and to make the connection with society so society can stop discrimination especially in femininity criticism and erase the boundaries between genders male and female.