How Character and Style Affect a Story

Every writer in the world has their own style of writing. Some have a happy fairy tale ending style, a lesson learning style, but some have a dark, gloomy, and even spooky style. In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her type of writing style that was considered to be dark, gothic, and freaky in her characters and her setting of the story. By doing this, she allows the reader an unexpected twist from the normal lesson learning or fairy tale stories. Gilman’s uses of character and setting tremendously impact the setting of her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In every story, there is some sort of characters because characters are extremely impactful to a story of any sort. How the author portrays the characters can make up a good majority of the story like in this example, the reader begins to read a story about a serial murder, readers can assume that the story will include death and intensity. However, sometimes the author tries the trick the reader to believe something else is going to happen when the author has a whole other idea. For example, the author might take a harmless story about a princess or such but turns out to be a psycho manic out hurting characters in the story. Characters make up a good majority of the story and without them we would not have basically any story. Gilman’s uses of character in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” allow the reader to understand the plot of the story more thoroughly. Mary Beth Pringle stated that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a fictional though partly autobiographical treatment given to a woman artist who had a nervous breakdown (Pringle 132). The protagonist, who supposedly was named Jane, is a woman who has been put on the “Rest Cure” by her husband, John and is writing the story about the wallpaper; even though, she is not allowed to do anything while on the “Rest Cure”. All the narrator wants to do is to write in her journal about everything going on because she will become better.