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A 6 page essay on Gilman's 'Yellow Wallpaper' in which the writer describes how the narrator is pushed gradually into a state of madness by her husband, John. Her room is described as a prison and her eventual independence is remarked to have been traded in for her sanity. Quotes from the story are used to support points made. No other sources cited.
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wife-patients nervous condition. The narrator, a new mother, has been brought to a country house for a "rest-cure"; by her husband; he selects for her the room with the
yellow wallpaper, the (former) nursery, where the "windows are barred for little children; and the bed has been nailed to the floor." Forbidden to write and think, prescribed for
and infantilized, the narrator becomes increasingly dysfunctional. She obsesses about the yellow wallpaper, in which she sees frightful patterns and an imprisoned female figure trying to emerge. The narrator
finally "escapes"; from her controlling husband and the intolerable confines of her existence only by a final descent into insanity as she peels the wallpaper off and bars her husband
from the room. An analysis of how the "unknown" protagonist "frees" herself can best be served with a discussion of her transgression into virtual lunacy.
For the most part, Gilmans story starts out with Jane as an "unknown" hysterical woman who is overprotected by her "loving" husband John. As I wrote, she is
taken to a summer home to recover from a nervous condition. She is told to rest and to sleep; she is not even allowed to write.
"I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word." This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and doctor. She
is "absolutely forbidden to "work" until" shes "well again." Here, John seems to be more of a father than a husband. He reminds me, in fact, of the
husband in the play "A Doll House," in the sense that John is being the dominant person in the marriage: a sign of the typical middle-class.
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