Summary Of The Yellow Wallpaper - 1049 Words

Sheren Tawfik Hum 1 7:45-9:35 class The yellow wallpaper â€Å"Live as domestic a life as possible†¦ And never touch pen, brush, or pencil as long as you live† An ardent proponent of such causes as women s suffrage and their societal and economic independence. Gilman shows how the rest cure, with its imposed captivity, actually does more harm than good, driving the narrator of the story insane. The first person narrator is a wife and a mother suffering from what is most like postpartum depression. She tells her story through a series of â€Å"secret† diary entries, which is she must hide from everyone especially her husband, who has forbidden her to write as a part of her rest cure. The narrator, a woman who is powerless against her husband†¦show more content†¦Her own conviction, however, is that what she needs is precisely the opposite which would be activity and stimulation. Treating some who is too close to you can be conflicting since it would be more of that person s treatment rather than that patient s treatment. And controlling what s around her and forbidding her from writing is creating an insanity inside her hea d because she is not able to be the real her around and that of course wouldn t help her with her Illness. From the outset, her opinions carry little weight. â€Å"Personally,† she disagrees with her treatment, but she has no power to change the situation. Gilman also begins to characterize the narrator here. The confusion over â€Å"phosphates or phosphites† is in character for someone who is not particularly interested in factual accuracy. And the rhythm of the sentence , helps evoke the hurried writing of the narrator in her secret journal, as well as the agitated state of her mind. â€Å"There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will, Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begin to think—I wish John would take me away from here!†(65 2) Referring to the wallpaper in the room where the protagonistShow MoreRelatedSummary Of The Yellow Wallpaper 1396 Words   |  6 PagesShort Paper: â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† Out of all the stories we have read in class so far, â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† was the only story that stood out to me the most. I was drawn to this story because it was very disturbing and thought-provoking. 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