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Women In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” the protagonist struggles the realization that the perplexity of the woman in the wallpaper is a symbolic version of herself. The title itself suggests that the uncanny will be connected with objects, particularly with the house and the wallpaper: ‘Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it,’ and later: “I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper. (Stetson 650)” Despite her initial dissatisfaction towards the room, the unhomely slowly becomes homely for the woman. Her feeling transitions from finding the room dull in the beginning to later being obsessed with the room. The definition of double is having two different …show more content…

The title and main subject of the story itself “the yellow wall-paper” plays a double role in the text. On one hand, the wallpaper traps the narrator’s mind to it with the intricacy of pattern that leads her to no satisfying end and towards the woman in the wallpaper. On the other hand it also sets her mind free. She describes the wallpaper as being the worst thing she has ever seen: "the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sun” (Stetson 649). Within the wallpaper the narrator finds her hidden self and her eventual freedom. Her obsession with the paper begins subtly and then completely consumes the narrator’s mind.Since she is stuck in the dark room and the only form of escapism is the bright yellow wallpaper, she becomes absorbed in the pattern of the paper and tries to follow them to an end. She fantasizes her replica behind the paper and projects the reflection of inward herself, as the characteristics of the wallpaper are very similar to those of

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