10/19/2018 0 Comments Free Write - The Yellow WallpaperHow do societal expectations affect women?
Why are women subjugated by men? Why are their ideas or feelings overlooked? How does it affect someone when they are disregarded? In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Yellow Wallpaper, these questions are addressed through the narrative of a woman during her descent into derangement. She begins the story fairly able-minded, describing her scenario and how her husband makes decisions about her care. She is confined to a room with what she describes as hideous yellow wallpaper, with confusing and irritating patterns. Later in the story, she begins to mention a woman, whom she believes to be trapped behind the wallpaper, creeping around in the shadows. This woman she mentions is likely a metaphor for women everywhere; and the patterns on the wallpaper represent the patterns of expectations that society forces on women. Near the end of the story, she begins to resemble the woman; creeping around the room and biting off the wicked wallpaper. Her husband, who could be held responsible for her madness, is painted as dismissive and self-opinionated. He disregards his wife’s feelings towards the wallpaper, and keeps her in the room so that she can recover from her illness. He treats her like a child, and does not allow her to write. She is reduced to writing in secret, and fills her journal with observations of the room. Where the wallpaper in once instance might represent a cage for women in society, in another it might represent the nature of her husband, and how he traps her in the room.
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