In the story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gillman may seem to tell the story of a woman that is struggling with mental illness. When considering the historical context of the story, it’s clear that Gillman was commenting on the limited resources available to women during the nineteenth century. The narrator begins her journal by […]
In the beginning of the story, the narrator explained the house as being a beautiful, silent, far away from the village, gated, and a haunted house. She already described the home as something devil-like possessed and wondered why else the house went on sale for so cheap and why it was abandoned for so long. […]
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Order nowIn the story of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator, Jane, is diagnosed with nervous depression. This condition is brought up multiple times throughout the story in many parts but in different forms. This is what ultimately leads her to go insane staring at the yellow wallpaper. The narrator puts enormous emphasis on this condition in […]
