The Importance Of Self-Expression In The Yellow Wallpaper

Sometimes people are put into positions where the importance of self- expression does not exist. In the story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator suffers from chronic depression when she moves into a new house with her husband John, also known as her doctor. As an attempt to treat her for chronic depression, John locks the narrator into a room where she notice for the first time the horrible yellow wallpaper. In her secret journal, the narrator writes about the disturbing wallpaper and was forced to stop writing by her husband. John sister Jennie came to nurse the narrator and also play as a housekeeper. Over the course of time, being in isolation, the narrator becomes fond of the wallpaper studying and attempting to figure out the pattern. As her obsession grows over the wallpaper the pattern becomes clear to her. She begins to see a woman bending down creeping behind the patterns that act like bars on a cage. The wallpaper dominates her imagination and she begins to sleep less. she sees the woman behind the pattern shaking the bars in the day and creeping during the night. When she thinks John and Jennie is aware of her obsession she goes into a frenzy and starts to bite and rip at the wallpaper. At this point the narrator thinks she herself came out of the wallpaper and when John sees his wife in her state of insanity he faint in the

In the beginning of the story she is in touch with the world but loses touch with the outside world by being isolated in a room. Her imagination that she once had was stopped by her husband, causing her to grow more frustrated. Her frustration trigger her brain to have excessive negative feelings. In the end she realize that it’s herself in the wallpaper creeping trying to get out. Her life situation caused her to become lock in the pattern of her own life. When she rips away the wallpaper, the narrator freed herself from the untangled