Wallpaper Symbolizing Jane’s Insanity In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the wallpaper causes and symbolizes Jane’s imprisonment which eventually causes her decent into insanity. Gilman shows this through the patterns and colors in the wallpaper itself, through the woman that she believes is stuck in the wallpaper, and when then wallpaper is finally taken down. As Jane continues to study the wallpaper, the different aspects that she discovers contribute to her eventual madness. The physical appearance of the wallpaper is directly symbolic of Jane’s situation. The yellowish color is affiliated with the weakness, and the powerlessness that she is feeling.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, almost exactly the narrator looks at her untouchable world through windows at the top of the stairs. This is symbolism for her bedroom a prison where the windows are “barred.” (Gilman) “The house is located three miles from town,” (Gilman) restricting contact from others. “The house is set far back from the road, with “hedges and walls and gates that lock” (Gilman). The position of the house resembles an isolated
It is, therefore, the motivating factor behind the two women’s search of liberation. Both women are oppressed by their husbands, and this curtails their happiness. In The Yellow Wallpaper,” John, a narrator’s spouse, confines his wife in a room with barred windows and hideous wallpaper that is yellow by its color at the countryside vacation house because she is ill. He deprives her freedom of communication by confining her in the room. He also puts her under the intense scrutiny.
The wallpaper like John is a confine in which neither woman can escape from. The many heads in the wallpaper are the activities that the narrator wants to do such as writing, seeing her Cousin Henry and Julia, and sleeping downstairs. “I don’t like to look out the window even- there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast”(434). The women creeping outside are women like the narrator who are oppressed and have to do things in secret just like the narrator secretly tried to
When she meets up with Adam near the beginning, you'd never even begin to predict what would happen throughout the entire book. What makes it sad though, is toward the end it seems like she can't find anyone to rely on because she's disconnected herself from her family and friends, and instead takes refuge beneath the wings of 'the monster', letting it guide her through, knowing she's strongly addicted. Ellen leaves you with the knowledge that she may never get off her addiction, and partially with the moral of the story: drugs are addictive and harmful. They can really mess you up. The book actually makes you learn a lesson, without knowing anything at all.
One example of complication was Graces kids, Anne and Nicholas were alergic to the sun, when ever they would go in front of it they would get blissters. So they had to close all the curtains in the house. The kids were always trapped inside while its a beautiful day out there, they could only go out at night. Another example is Anne keeps on seeing Victor the ghost, and keeps scaring Nicholas about that, because hes only little he said there's no such thing as ghost but Anne kept saying there was and he kept coming back and scaring them. The last example for this is at the end of the movie Anne, Nicholas and Grace find out that Mrs. Mills, the old man and the servent were ghosts, they were trying to scare then out of the house and keep the house for them selves.
The narrator hates the yellow wallpaper from the first times she sees it. She states, “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (747). She eventually begins to see things in the wallpaper as time passes from being in the room so much. The narrator states, “[….] – I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that sill and conspicuous front design” (749).
She is unreliable because she is deranged. She “creeps smoothly on the floor,” this is one of the few points that explains how deranged Jane is. The story is set in a time when women are more submissive. John, the narrator’s husband, is a doctor who claims that Jane is ill. Jane was told to stay in her room which is unique as the “windows are barred.” The barring on the window symbolizes herself being holed up inside and in the real world against her will. The bed is also nailed down in her room.
The Yellow Wallpaper By the end of the “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator lets her surroundings, the wallpaper, and her husband John, get the best of her. John treats the narrator as if she were a child and takes away her right to choose and decide how she feels; this eventually leads to her defeat. After being treated like a child and put in a room that is barred up, she develops problems which eventually lead to paranoia and insanity. Both paranoia and insanity eventually lead her to believe that she is the woman who has escaped from the yellow wallpaper. From the very beginning of the story, problems are brought up that hint toward the defeat of Jane.
I will attempt to analyze The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman, specifically wheather the dwelling was a stately home, or a mental institution.It is my contention that it is a mental institution. I base this conclusion on statements that are made throughout the story concerning the dwelling. When the author began her discription of the dwelling, it began to dawn on me that it sounded like a mental institution.ie; "The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, sanding well back from the road. Quite three miles from the village.