What Is A Reflection Of The Yellow Wallpaper

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Counting on others for one’s own well-being, is that a mistake? Or is just an act of over trust? The Yellow Wallpaper is the struggle of a women feeling as if she is losing her mind. An overbearing and controlling husband makes every effort to try and “fix” his wife to make her better, even if that means confining her to a single room. Despite the husbands best efforts he cannot take away the thoughts and images in his wife’s head. Too much trust is put into the husbands hands, to leave the wife with no voice. This story shines light to how much men really dominated society, and how controlling the male species is. As a result, leaving the subservient wife’s the ones that suffer the consequences of their significant other. When a small case …show more content…

From the narrator she starts to see patterns within the wallpaper and progressively as her obsession get worse a woman appears. The silhouette of a woman “Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady parts she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.” (PG 654) The woman in the wallpaper is actually a reflection of what the narrator feels. The narrator feels trapped and creates this imagine in her head of a woman that is trapped behind bars and cannot get out. No Her brain keeps thinking and thinking about the wallpaper, trying to figure out the movement of the patterns and the images in the wallpaper. To anyone else the wallpaper never moves but to the narrator it does. Her condition gets worse as the weeks pass and the more her obsession consumes her. Staying up every night to configure the images and …show more content…

It is just up to an individual to recognize and do something about it before it is too late. The narrator reached her breaking point at the end of the story, but at that point her condition turned into something more severe than it started out to be. No one should be left alone when going through a tough time in their life. Creating the imagines of the woman in the wallpaper was a desperate attempt for help. Representing how trapped the narrator felt in the room. Not sleeping all night and locking herself in the room to finally do something about the wallpaper the narrator hated so much. By doing this the narrator was not only freeing the woman but also freeing herself from that room. John would finally know the extent of her illness and maybe would pay his wife some attention. At that point it was kind of too late to help, but only time could tell if the damage could be

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