A Literary Analysis Of 'Yellow Wallpaper'
Travis Kogel
Professor Wilcox
English 1302
09/272013
Analysis of Yellow Wallpaper
Throughout the story of the Yellow Wallpaper, the time and place with which a situation is set in leads to a great significance on the development and authenticity of the story. The setting of the place towards the beginning of the story and progressing towards the end directly affects the state of the women in the character. Her mood directly influences the setting and state with which she is in. The visuals and the symbolic imagerys of the setting helps the readers connect with the characters more and thus builds a connection through the entirety of the story.
The opening of the setting directly correlates with the narrator’s thoughts and feelings. It …show more content…
Gradually as the months pass, she becomes increasingly ill and her very sanity shows. Her husband’s way of treatment and rest only forces her to get worse and not better. She states to John, “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care—there is something strange about the house—I can feel it”. The statement depicts her troubled emotions both mentally and emotionally regarding the mansion. Gradually as the months pass, she becomes increasingly ill and her very sanity becomes worse. She starts to become fixated with the yellow wallpaper in her room. She quotes “they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing seaweeds in full chase(403).” The detailed observations made by her towards the ending of the text describe her cry for help to stop her illness and the only therapy she knows as liberating. What she doesn’t understand is her illness as seen in the text worsens as she runs her imagination through the surroundings of the wallpaper. She feels trapped and her only way out to her lies in the wallpaper. She develops vivid …show more content…
There are clues towards the ending of the story that the events following her experience with the wallpaper may have also happened previously with other women. She states, “I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they come out of that wallpaper as I did” which shows she might have believed the events occurred before. Thus as the story’s building up, the setting portrays her need to tear off all the wallpaper in a means to escape from her own imprisoned self and the lives of previously trapped women behind the wallpaper. After the woman tears off the wallpaper, the setting immediately changes as she liberates herself from her own illness that caused her depression since the beginning. There is no longer the yellow wallpaper and the freedom of celebration from her husband. She is now seen in control instead of her
Professor Wilcox
English 1302
09/272013
Analysis of Yellow Wallpaper
Throughout the story of the Yellow Wallpaper, the time and place with which a situation is set in leads to a great significance on the development and authenticity of the story. The setting of the place towards the beginning of the story and progressing towards the end directly affects the state of the women in the character. Her mood directly influences the setting and state with which she is in. The visuals and the symbolic imagerys of the setting helps the readers connect with the characters more and thus builds a connection through the entirety of the story.
The opening of the setting directly correlates with the narrator’s thoughts and feelings. It …show more content…
Gradually as the months pass, she becomes increasingly ill and her very sanity shows. Her husband’s way of treatment and rest only forces her to get worse and not better. She states to John, “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care—there is something strange about the house—I can feel it”. The statement depicts her troubled emotions both mentally and emotionally regarding the mansion. Gradually as the months pass, she becomes increasingly ill and her very sanity becomes worse. She starts to become fixated with the yellow wallpaper in her room. She quotes “they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing seaweeds in full chase(403).” The detailed observations made by her towards the ending of the text describe her cry for help to stop her illness and the only therapy she knows as liberating. What she doesn’t understand is her illness as seen in the text worsens as she runs her imagination through the surroundings of the wallpaper. She feels trapped and her only way out to her lies in the wallpaper. She develops vivid …show more content…
There are clues towards the ending of the story that the events following her experience with the wallpaper may have also happened previously with other women. She states, “I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they come out of that wallpaper as I did” which shows she might have believed the events occurred before. Thus as the story’s building up, the setting portrays her need to tear off all the wallpaper in a means to escape from her own imprisoned self and the lives of previously trapped women behind the wallpaper. After the woman tears off the wallpaper, the setting immediately changes as she liberates herself from her own illness that caused her depression since the beginning. There is no longer the yellow wallpaper and the freedom of celebration from her husband. She is now seen in control instead of her