Yellow Wallpaper Summary
Madeline Dock
Ms. Barber
English 2
10 February 2015
Summary
The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman, named Jane, who goes away with her husband John, who is a Doctor, for the summer to live in a colonial mansion. She is depressed or has some sort of mental illness after her baby is born and that is why they went away so she would get better. Her husband makes her mainly stay on the second floor in a room by herself where she is forbidden from writing, exercising, or working. She begins to write in a journal as a stress reliever and she uses it as an outlet to help her get out some feelings. She talks about the wallpaper a little bit in the beginning, she does not like it all and when she asks John to do something about it he ignores it and thinks she is being foolish. The Fourth of July rolls around and she gets to see a few people but her condition seems to be getting worse to the point where she is crying every day. She starts to complain about John, about how he is controlling and suppressing. As the story goes along the more disturbing the wallpaper becomes to her also every time her husband shoots her ideas of going home down she becomes even more obsessed with the wallpaper. Jane starts to think that the sub-pattern on that wall looks like a woman who is trying to escape the main pattern. She starts sneaking around the house and her goal to destroy the paper and free the woman. In the end she goes out of her complete mind and scratches at wall thinking she is freeing herself. When John comes home and unlocks the door to see her hysterically scratching the wallpaper off he faints and the story ends with her stepping over her husband and leaving. The short story “How to become a writer” talks about the struggles of becoming a writer. She starts off by talking about how you should try first to be anything else
Ms. Barber
English 2
10 February 2015
Summary
The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman, named Jane, who goes away with her husband John, who is a Doctor, for the summer to live in a colonial mansion. She is depressed or has some sort of mental illness after her baby is born and that is why they went away so she would get better. Her husband makes her mainly stay on the second floor in a room by herself where she is forbidden from writing, exercising, or working. She begins to write in a journal as a stress reliever and she uses it as an outlet to help her get out some feelings. She talks about the wallpaper a little bit in the beginning, she does not like it all and when she asks John to do something about it he ignores it and thinks she is being foolish. The Fourth of July rolls around and she gets to see a few people but her condition seems to be getting worse to the point where she is crying every day. She starts to complain about John, about how he is controlling and suppressing. As the story goes along the more disturbing the wallpaper becomes to her also every time her husband shoots her ideas of going home down she becomes even more obsessed with the wallpaper. Jane starts to think that the sub-pattern on that wall looks like a woman who is trying to escape the main pattern. She starts sneaking around the house and her goal to destroy the paper and free the woman. In the end she goes out of her complete mind and scratches at wall thinking she is freeing herself. When John comes home and unlocks the door to see her hysterically scratching the wallpaper off he faints and the story ends with her stepping over her husband and leaving. The short story “How to become a writer” talks about the struggles of becoming a writer. She starts off by talking about how you should try first to be anything else