Summary: The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Yellow Wallpaper”
The feeling of freedom is a mental awareness that people take for granted. When a person becomes aware of its restrictions they begin to feel departed or feel like they don’t matter. With a person with an anxiety or depression disorder they already feel the sense of being unknown. Where performing activities keeps their mind off the issue they developed. In the story of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the concern of an individual’s ability to be free and unconstrained is being discussed with. Jane is married to her husband John and have just moved into a new estate that has been empty for a long time. Jane has been suffering from post-partum depression before they moved in to the estate. John sees

The treatment for her illness is to do nothing active but Jane feels that activities relieve her condition. John keeps Jane in the bedroom where she can’t do anything and especially not leave the room. Jane then decides to keep a secret journal to relieve her mind. Jane writes in the journal about what she thinks about throughout her day. Eventually leading to her writing about John and his controlling behaviors. Jane was then led to describing the environment she’s in leading her description of the yellow wallpaper in the room. She becomes fixated on this wallpaper and soon becomes possessed by it. Jane speaks about John’s inability to understand her. By the end Jane becomes insane ultimately thinking she is trapped in the yellow wallpaper. A person becomes trapped in his or her mind when he or she cannot stop fixating on something they cannot control. Jane is left in the room where she becomes fixated on the yellow wallpaper. Jane struggles with the environment she is within. The Yellow Wallpaper shows how people who lose touch with the outer world become trapped in their mind and the

John is ignorant to Jane’s wellbeing since he doesn’t allow her a say. Jane’s unbiased opinion wants to be heard and retreating to her imagination lead to her obsession. The idea behind Janes obsession was control, where she felt power of her mind. Jane is trapped her in her mind due to the control she’s obsessed over. She felt she could control her environment leading to her fascination to understand it. To show her insanity, Jane discusses about how “the woman gets out during the daytime” (Gilman 428). This shows the truth about herself and the fantasy that she’s been living. She thinks the woman in the wallpaper is a separate being when that woman is her. She becomes what she believes is the trapped woman. Jane thinks ripping the wall paper will release the trapped woman but she became lost in the process. Jane ripping the wallpaper was her desperation for freedom, freedom from her controlling husband. Just like a jail cell Jane is in a place where she only has the four walls and herself. These four walls were what eventually trapped her mind. Using her sense of imagination, she finds these walls as symbolic to her mental disorder. If a person losses the sense of smell, there other senses effectively increase and become stronger. Jane loses her sense of self control and reason leading her to gain a sense of