The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Everyone thinks differently yet they can be made so see thinks the same. Created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper was written in the early 19 and late 18 hundreds to express her thoughts about the way the world treated depression. The universal understanding of the wall paper is always the same, yet the unique view point of the individual causes the two main conflicts towards the narrator to be seen differently towards the resolution.
“Lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide- plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions” (Stetson, 648). She truly hated the yellow wall paper, with all of its uncertainties the moment she laid her eyes on it. She loved everything else about the summer home except for the broken down green house that “spoils my ghostliness” (648), yet the yellow wallpaper was the one thing that ruined everything for her. She stays in the room with everything she will need to get rest and to get better. She is not allowed to do anything but rest: no walk, no writing, and no helping around the house, no visitors that might cause stress, and no baby. With all that time occupied by nothing her mind wonders to finds something else to do. “[I] never saw a worse paper in my life.” (649) she found something to keep her busy the one thing that’s always in front of her , the thing she hates the wallpaper and that makes her go crazy and it gets worse the more time she is stays in the room. “But there is something else about that paper- the smell! [She] noticed it the moment [her and her husband] came into the room, but with so much air and sun in the room it was not bad” (654). She gets attracted to the wallpaper and notices every little detai...

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... in the marriage and getting her free will back, and the moment John fainted meant the down fall in the way thing where. His wife was finally able stand up for her salve and it’s easy to see that the theme of The Yellow Wallpaper is women being depressed by man and the point to the store to show women power even thou it made some people feel weird. Yet the ended and the reason for the story was,” not intended to drive people crazy, but save people from being driven crazy, and it worked” (Gilman).

Works Cited

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. proposed by Prof. Catherine Leivender. The collage of Staten Island of the city University of New York. 8 June 1998.Ret. 11 Feb.2014 { csive.csi.cuny.edu }
Stetson Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. United States National Library and Medicine Bathesole, Maryland. 647-656.Ret. 11 Feb. 2014. {nlm.nih.gov}

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