There are times within our lives that we feel trapped to the point where we watch our sanity spiral down. This could be a mental or physical issue; however, if you haven’t felt this emotional rollercoaster before you can with the female narrator within the story The Yellow Wallpaper created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This book is a lot more than a woman going through a mental breakdown, The Yellow Wallpaper is a book that focuses on women's lives that she writes from her own personal experiences and conveys a message that sometimes in a male dominated society women suffer from the relentless power that some men carry out over women through themes, symbolism, and the characters within the plot. Before we get into the heart of the story we need to understand the story itself. The narrator has fallen into a depressive state after the birth of her baby and ordered to rest by her husband and brother, a respected physician. The narrator becomes isolated from everyone but her husband and nurse and imprisoned in a room where her condition deteriorates. The wallpaper in her room comes to …show more content…
The wallpaper is key to depicting the domestic life of women because the more you face into the wallpaper the deeper you get and the more stuck you are. The more time you spend with your husband the more you become stuck and controlled by him. Then there is the bed, It’s big, heavy, and chained down to the floor. With a quote stating, “He said that after the wallpaper changing it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on. (Charlotte 1.14). We can acknowledge that the reader is being provided a physical confinement that mirrors the narrator’s societal confinement, which can link back to the theme from her husband putting her within this room showing that he possesses power over her that's based on her