Feminism_And_The_Yellow_Wallpaper

Feminism And The Yellow Wallpaper Feminist Reading of “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” with intentions of speaking out against the oppression of women. It is clear how the narrator of the story is controlled by her husband, John. She fights for her right to express what she feels throughout the story. Unbeknownst to the narrator though, is the fact she is indeed living in an oppressed world that is controlled totally by her husband. Gilman depicts the narrator in this way to hide any overt statements about the oppression of women by their male counterparts. Gilman was writing in a time when women writers often kept their works from publications and wrote under male pseudonyms. But alas, Gilman’s story is told through the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Gilman does not give a name to the narrator and we have to refer to her as the narrator or John’s wife. This is the first hint of the oppression of women. We know the husband’s name is John. We know he is a physician and that he has a job in the town. As for the narrator, we know nothing of a profession, which narrator, gilman, wallpaper, john, story, husband, says, know, women, way, oppression, herself, writing, write, woman, wife, think, yellow, society, room, right, really, oppressed, life, feels, about, time, through, something, power, men, feel, controlled, world, trapped