Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "the yellow wallpaper is about a woman who seems to be dealing with either depression and her husband wants to keep her locked away in the upstairs bedroom of their rental home. Her husband and brother who both happen to be physician think that all she needs is some fresh air and rest but she doesn't seem to agree. She feels that work and writing is the one thing that's really going to help her. Her husband and the people around her try to stop her from doing anything that they feel is going to exhaust her. While she staying in the upstairs room of the rental room she notice something about the wallpaper in the room. it seems has if the wallpaper helps her get in touch with reality. Towards the end of the story she starts to notice a woman. From her point of view it seems as if the womanis trying to creep out of the wallpaper. I feel like the woman she sees in the woman is the woman she is. the more she tries to interpret and understand the woman in the wallpaper the better her conditions become. She gets better and releases the woman from the wallpaper and she frees herself from her illness which frees her from her husband Jolson her life.
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Reading your blog, sort of put a different aspect on what i felt the story meant. Interesting that you thought she was getting better,I couldn't see that, I saw her "pretending" that she was doing better so they wouldn't bother her while she worked on the wall paper. I will definitely have to reread it and maybe see if I can see her actually getting better.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she got better either. I think she realized that she wasn't going to get better.
ReplyDeleteI think she hung herself in the end, I don't know if I am alone here with this interpretation.
Nevertheless, the insanity must have been coupled with having to rip off the wallpaper and set an example to her husband. He didn't expect that she would kill herself. This is what he got in return. I believe he genuinely had love for her, he just wasn't good at loving. Maybe it was her only way of breaking free.