The short story, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" was written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and was first published in 1892. The setting is a room with yellow wallpaper that a woman stays in during a time without technology.
This story is written by a woman, probably a new mother, who is in a sort of therapy. We are not given her name. She writes about how she feels a sort of depression, anxiety, or ailment. Her husband, John, brought her to this new housing that she writes about to help her get better, but she may not leave, and she can only see the outside through her barred windows. This lady continuously writes about the dread of the room she stays in, and how John won't let her have her way because she is not well. She often speaks of the wallpaper and how gross it is. She hates it and she always makes that noticed. Later on, she talks about a woman in the wall-paper named, Jennie. She often sees this woman, and talks about her sadness of being in that horrid colored wall-paper. As the story nears towards the end, the woman who lives in this room can not wait till she leaves after the lease is up. She seems happier in her mood, and she ends up "freeing" Jennie from her trap. John comes home from work and finds that his wife has locked him and, and when he gets the key, he is shocked and he passes out.
A few major themes in this story is mental illness and being trapped. The yellow-wallpaper has a tendency to play a motif as well as a symbol. Its motif is the constant repetition it has in this short story, as well as the title. The symbol it plays is its sad and dreary capture it has on the woman that lives in this room as well as Jennie, the woman who lives behind the wall-paper and exists in this woman's head.
This story leaves me a few ideas of what is going on/its underlying message; this lady is actually crazy and dellusional about her life, or suffering from post partem.. OR this woman's husband, John, is controlling and trapping her in an ultimately abusive relationship. The fact that the woman has a mental condition, leaves you to wonder if this is a story that is going on in her world or this is in fact the real world she is living.
This story is written by a woman, probably a new mother, who is in a sort of therapy. We are not given her name. She writes about how she feels a sort of depression, anxiety, or ailment. Her husband, John, brought her to this new housing that she writes about to help her get better, but she may not leave, and she can only see the outside through her barred windows. This lady continuously writes about the dread of the room she stays in, and how John won't let her have her way because she is not well. She often speaks of the wallpaper and how gross it is. She hates it and she always makes that noticed. Later on, she talks about a woman in the wall-paper named, Jennie. She often sees this woman, and talks about her sadness of being in that horrid colored wall-paper. As the story nears towards the end, the woman who lives in this room can not wait till she leaves after the lease is up. She seems happier in her mood, and she ends up "freeing" Jennie from her trap. John comes home from work and finds that his wife has locked him and, and when he gets the key, he is shocked and he passes out.
A few major themes in this story is mental illness and being trapped. The yellow-wallpaper has a tendency to play a motif as well as a symbol. Its motif is the constant repetition it has in this short story, as well as the title. The symbol it plays is its sad and dreary capture it has on the woman that lives in this room as well as Jennie, the woman who lives behind the wall-paper and exists in this woman's head.
This story leaves me a few ideas of what is going on/its underlying message; this lady is actually crazy and dellusional about her life, or suffering from post partem.. OR this woman's husband, John, is controlling and trapping her in an ultimately abusive relationship. The fact that the woman has a mental condition, leaves you to wonder if this is a story that is going on in her world or this is in fact the real world she is living.