How To Oppress Darkness In The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a highly respected feminist of her era. Her semi-autobiographical “The Yellow Wallpaper” was an inspiring and a notable short story in the eyes of the feminists in the early 1890s. Her work toward representing woman’s health, both physically as mentally, became transcendent. She challenges how the men can oppress woman, even if not intentionally, by determining the best course of treatment without taking into consideration the woman’s point of view. It’s remarkable how these patterns happened through the centuries and is still occurring in some places. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the author brings to life the mental activity in a woman with a mental disorder. It’s phenomenal how the author explains detail by detail how the mind of the narrator works and how slowly through the story, she loses her mind to the yellow wallpaper. But, does she really loses her mind or finds freedom in the process? One would say that she enters a path with no return by ripping apart the wallpaper. Other would say she frees herself of that cage. However, although the narrator feels the yellow wallpaper is the cause of her

The narrator from the beginning kept saying she hated the wallpaper, and that she kept seeing a very weird pattern that didn’t make any sense. It’s kind of obvious each time she spent inspecting the wall, she became more “sick” or made her sickness progress. Thus making her more comfortable with the yellow wallpaper. The narrator even says “… and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself. “(Gilman, page 475). She’s convinced herself through the story that she must find what’s hidden in that strange looking pattern. And, at one point, determined herself too free the woman trapped in the wall. Just to figure out at the end, that from the beginning, she was the one trap in the