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Isolation In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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The narrative begins when the narrator and her husband, John, rent a colonial estate for the summer after the wife gives birth to her daughter. John is a doctor; he diagnoses the narrator, who is his wife, with "nervous depression" and prescribes a "rest cure." This prescription includes a strict rest and seclusion routine in a room with yellow wallpaper, which the narrator dislikes from the beginning of the isolation. The rising action in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" follows the narrator's growing passion for the yellow wallpaper in the room where she is trapped. She becomes obsessed with the pattern that made her imagine a lady trapped behind it and wants to free her. This obsession leads to her tearing off the wallpaper …show more content…

Once Gilman has done ripping the paper, she begins to behave like the woman on the wallpaper, sneaking around the room and tracing the pattern on the wall, this was the falling action. The resolution of the story occurs when her husband realizes the seriousness of his wife's mental illness and chooses to move her from the house and seek medical treatment for her. The fact it depicts the negative impacts of a patriarchal society on women's mental health is …show more content…

They do not confront John's dismissive attitude toward the narrator's mental health problems, but rather support the story's gender roles and power dynamics. Furthermore, because the main characters in most stories are round, the wife is the main character in this story. Yet, the secondary characters include John and his sister Jennie, both of whom are flat. When it comes to the story's settings, the place was a big and isolated colonial home, that plays a significant role in generating the narrator's sense of captivity and isolation. The narrator's room is in the attic, emphasizing her isolation from the outer world. The backdrop is also defined by the mansion's dilapidated condition, with peeling wallpaper and damaged floorboards adding to the impression of decay and

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