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¶ … Yellow Wallpaper
How the antagonist in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins contributes to the story's overall meaning.
The physician's wife is the main character and has just given birth. She suffers from postpartum depression, but the husband tries his best to treat her. Her husband prescribes a pattern of treatment that requires her to be locked in a bedroom with a yellow paper that is lurid. The main character is a writer who has been forbidden to write; however, she writes when no one is around her. Beautiful grounds surround the estate, but she is motivated to stay indoors and not to give into fancies. She has chosen a bedroom that is darks and decrepit. The floor has scratches and the walls have holes and dents. In addition, the bed has been permanently nailed on the floor.
Some sections of the floor have yellow wallpaper patches that the woman despises. Her husband has remorsefully refuted her numerous requests to leave the house or change the bedroom. The wife's behavior has become more twisted and strange despite her husband's claims that there...
The wife begins to learn about the patterns in the wallpaper. These patterns change forming face whose eyes are bulging. The faces change and become figure which later forms one woman. Gradually, the physician's wife begins to meeting this creep woman in the bedroom. Without the knowledge of her husband, she is motivated to identify the secrets behind the yellow wallpaper (Gilman 33).
As time passed, the woman developed more tactful ways of hiding her journal: this made her hide her true thoughts from her husband, John. The wife longs for a stimulating activity and company but is not comfortable with her husband's controlling and patronizing nature. She focuses on the wallpaper, which she finds to be ugly, and an odd menace. She complains that her husband has refused to repair the room because she had fixed her mind on the wallpaper. However, her imagination has been aroused. She says that she likes picturing people on the pathways around the house and her husband discourages such fantasies. She reflected on her childhood when she worked alone and imagined…
Work Cited
Gilman, Perkins. Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'? Harvard: Harvard Business Press. 2003.
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Johnson, Greg. Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage and Redemption in 'The Yellow Wallpaper. New York: Penguin Books, 2009. Print
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