An Analysis of “The Yellow Paper” Mothers usually take the roles of taking care of their spouse or children when it comes to being a married woman. They are excited in taking care and making sure that their husband and child’s needs are met. Being a mother comes with the responsibility to raise, love and protect their children while managing the household. However, the role seems to be unusual in author Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrator of this story is a wife of a physician who denies her freedom as a woman. John the physician and her husband forces her to get treatment lying down in her bed for months because she is having nervous depression where she undergoes treated. As a result, she has hardships in trying to keep herself together and not go insane. Throughout, the beginning of the story readers are introduced to a woman who is a writer. The author does not give the character a name, but she narrates the story from her consciousness. The narrator stated that she is feeling ill, but her husband John doesn't believe her at the beginning and neither does her brother who is a physician. However, later on he does believe his wife. Her husband John insist that she does not write, travel or leave the house until she feels better. As months passed by she gets infuriated and …show more content…
At first the readers can tell that John wants to prevent her from writing, but she does it secretly when he is not around. Most of the time when he is out working on a important case. The wallpaper itself can be seen as feminine discourse for women status in society, “I think that woman gets out in the daytime! And I'll tell you why--privately--I've seen her! I can see her out of every one of my windows! It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by