Imprisonment of Women Exposed in The Yellow Wallpaper -- Yellow Wallpa

Imprisonment of Women Exposed in The icteric Wallpaper When asked the question of wherefore she chose to write The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that experiences in her own life dealing with a nervous condition, then termed melancholia, had prompted her to write the short story as a means to try and save other people from a analogous fate. Although she may have suffered from a similar condition to the teller of her illume short story, Gilmans story cannot be coined merely a tale of insanity. dementia is the vehicle for Gilmans larger comment on the atrocities of social conformity. The main consultation of The Yellow Wallpaper comes to recognize the inhumanity in societys treatment of women, and in her awakening to this, visualizes her torment in the faded yellow wallpaper that hangs in her chambers, her jail. The unnamed narrator of the tale is purposefully left unnamed the narrator could be any wife, any mother, any woman. Gilman transforms the hysterical , insane female of first 19th century literature into genius. The first striking image that readers of The Yellow Wallpaper are presented with is not that of a room, it is not of the house, but of the casing of John, the husband. John is described as a man of a virtual(a) and extreme nature (246). His presence throughout the tale provides for the narrators motive. John refuses to take on her wifes condition he does not believe that there is anything truly aggrieve with her. If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really energy the matter with one but temporary nervous depression, a frail hysterical tendency - what is one to do? (246) The narrator is possessed by her hus... ...ion. Sven Birkerts. Boston, Massachusetts Allyn and Bacon, 1992. 387-400. Haney-Peritz, Janice. Monumental Feminism and Literatures Ancestral House Another front at The Yellow Wallpaper. Womens Studies 12 (1986) 113-128. Johnson, Greg. Gilmans Gothic Allegory Rage and salvation in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 26 (Fall 1989) 521-530. King, Jeanette, and Pam Morris. On Not Reading Between the Lines Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 26.1 (Winter 1989) 23-32. Knight, Denise D. The Reincarnation of Jane Through This - Gilmans Companion to The Yellow Wallpaper. Womens Studies 20 (1992) 287-302. Rigney, Barbara Hill. violence and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood. Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.