The_Yellow_Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the unnamed protagonist is obsessed with the yellow wallpaper because it represents the insanity in her life that snowballs from post pardum depression to a serious nervous disorder. When we first learn of the protagonist, we find she suffers from post pardum depression, which her husband, a high ranking doctor, attempts to address by treating her with a “Rest-cure” (pg. 617) by placing her in a colonial mansion away from society. It is this location where she comes in contact with the yellow wallpaper. Automatically when the narrator views the yellow wallpaper of the room, she is appalled at the way it looks. She states she had never seen worse paper, and that it had “committed every artistic sin.” (pg. 618) We learn of her resentfulness of the wallpaper through writings in her journal. She is not allowed to visit her Cousin Henry or Julia, her husband is gone most of the day and she is not allowed to leave the room, which leads her to discuss the wallpaper, or in reality her portrait of herself. She talks of how horrid it is and a wallpaper, pg, depression, yellow, because, narrator, represents, life, cannot, begins, things, story, room, really, post, pardum, own, nobody, never, nervous, looks, husband, herself, effort, come, time, through, states, sort, says, represent, realizes, protagonist, point, pattern