Insanity In The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper Legal insanity and paranormal activity have been widely talked about subjects for years and years now. It is a very controversial topic whether Jane in the story,”The Yellow Wallpaper” was insane or was haunted. Although there is evidence that can support both, Jane was a victim of legal insanity, not a haunting. This can be proven by the fact that she was constantly given medication and was forcibly kept in a room, she was hallucinating a lot, and in her mind, she became the wallpaper. Jane was clearly not in the right state of mind and that is shown many times throughout the story.

Jane was for sure legally insane. To begin with, her husband was constantly giving her medication throughout her daily life and she was forcibly kept in a room all day. Why would Jane need to be kept in a room and be constantly checked on and given medication if she was just being haunted? The theory of paranormal activity makes no sense. In the story it states, “For the windows are barred for the little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (Stetson 648). Clearly, she did not realize that someone else had

In the story, she beings to see something in the designs of the wallpaper. A woman to be more specific. At first, all she saw was an annoying pattern in what she considered to be an awful wallpaper. Eventually she began to spend much more time tracing the designs and watching it closely most of her day. One day she started to see something. She saw a woman-like figure creeping around in the wallpaper design. “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern looks like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (Stetson 649). This clearly shows that something was not right. No normal person would see something as creepy and disturbing as that unless there was something seriously wrong with you,