A story about one woman’s progression towards psychosis, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is set in the 1800’s and takes place over a three month period. This account begins when a woman and her husband move into a house and stay in a room with yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story, this woman writes about how this paper affects her daily life until her obsession with it takes over her mind. Written in a journal format, the plot of “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives the reader a close insight to the deteriorating effect this wallpaper has on the sanity of the narrator.
During the exposition the reader is introduced to the main characters, John and his wife. The wife is the narrator of this story We are informed that John is a physician and that his wife has been diagnosed with temporary nervous depression. The husband has leased a mansion for three months in order to give his wife a chance to improve her condition. The wife
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The exposition informs the reader of her diagnosis, temporary nervous depression, and because of this she must spend her days in an attic room in order to get well. The inciting incident is when the patterns in the wallpaper begin to unnerve the woman and make her uncomfortable in her room. However, the rising action describes how the narrator’s interest in this wallpaper grows to an obsession and she sees the figure of a woman moving in it’s patterns. The climax of the story occurs when she locks herself in her room and tears off most of the wallpaper. Next, in the falling action, she believes that she is the woman figure behind the paper. During the resolution, her husband enters her room after finding the key. Finally, in the conclusion of the story, the narrator tells her husband what she had done to the room and that she is not going back into the wallpaper. After hearing this, the story ends with the husband