Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the reader is presented with the many different emotions and perspectives of the narrator as she sees images of a woman in the wallpaper. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, successfully makes this event interesting and significant. Some may see the lady behind the wallpaper as something the narrator sees because she is “crazy” or imagines for no other reason than boredom. However, only one thing must be true as various parts in the story allude and point to. The narrator is the woman trapped in the wallpaper, and the narrator reflects on her feelings of imprisonment within reality and her own mind.
The narrator clearly feels imprisoned in her own life. The most evident example of specifically, her imprisonment of her marriage, is within the text of the first page. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (76). This is when the reader is first presented with the character of John, her
The narrator is explaining how she “...always lock the door when I creep by daylight” (87). When the narrator explains the woman behind the wallpapers actions, she describes, “...she may be able to creep faster...” (87). Quite similarly, the closing sentence contains it again, “...so that I had to creep over him every time!” (89). The narrator is clearly comparing the woman to herself, and her skulking and “creeping” ways. The woman behind the wallpaper, trying to escape, represents the narrator also trying to escape. She wants nothing more than to be free of the prison which she is living in. This also includes the imprisonment of her marriage, and relationship with John. Lastly, it’s the imprisonment of her emotional condition; her depression. She wishes to escape all of these things, just as she has seen the woman behind the wallpaper attempt to do. Sometimes, prison isn’t always a