The Analysis of Jane’s Insanity

When thinking moving will help it is actually a horrible idea because it is causing more change in her world. Since she does not like the change it makes her life even worse. The yellow wallpaper room her husband makes her sleep in drives the narrator ill because she does not understand it. The room makes her feel uneasy and makes her wonder why the room is different. Since the reader is not well she is forced by her disease to go crazy in the room she is pressured to be in to actually help her get

Charlotte Perkins Gilman vividly illustrates these human aspirations in The Yellow Wallpaper. Subsequently she paints a horrific picture of someone who fails in her quest. These elements of this short story render it to be, for any reader who has experienced these hungers, an intensely personal experience. The heroine of this tale knows that she is not well, and the fact that medical authorities contradict her self-diagnosis frustrates her. She concedes that her husband should be more knowledgeable than her about her condition.

Thi... ... middle of paper ... ... and the lurid orange shows that she is completely intrigued by the wallpaper, but it still has an unpleasant effect on her. The dull orange also represents her wanting to break free of the conventional gender roles; whereas, the lurid orange also represents her actually attempting to free herself from them. By using the narrator’s mental illness and utter disgust of the wallpaper, Gilman showed her displeasure with the conventional nineteenth-century marriage and the gender subordination that came with it. By using the narrator as a medium, Gilman tried to explain the need of social change of thinking toward women and their gender roles. Writing this story herself seems to coincide with the narrator finally breaking free of her gender role by killing her husband and continuing to tear down the bars of the gender subordination.

She wonders what has happened to make those marks, but the narrator soon reveals that she “can creep smoothly on the floor, and her shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall…” and “I got angry so I bit off a little piece at one corner” (Gilman 427-428). The woman is making these marks because she is not getting the treatment she needs and it is driving her mad to the point she is forgetting her own slips of insanity. Women still find it hard to get the treatment they need. Medication for depression is high-priced and doctors disregard women’s remarks of being depressed as the woman’s husband did

These comments coming from a neighbor lead the reader to believe that Mrs. Wright was not happy in her surroundings largely because of her husband. Even the rocking chair in which Mrs. Wright sat seems tainted with unpleasantness. Mrs. Peters ahs to "shake off the mood which the empty rocking chair [evokes]" (131) before she continues her conversation with Mrs. Hale. The strange feeling the house provokes prods the women to think more deeply into the events leading to John Wright's death. This curiosity allows the women to u... ... middle of paper ... ...would have much more difficulty portraying the evidence to the reader.

The narrator is terrified to step over the line shows her minds and emotions are being trained to comply with her husband’s orders. Ironically, John perceives the narrator as the patterns, he is not interested in further exploring her inner thoughts other than her general thoughts. The author of the paper “"The Yellow Wallpaper” and Women's Discourse”, Karen Ford, argues that “The wallpaper, in fact, sometimes appears like male discourse in its capacity to contradict and immobilize the women who are trapped within it” (311). The narrator later saw emergence of, “a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” (Gilman 652) in the sub-pattern and it represents her compliance to her inner thoughts of being free. The woman in the wallpaper, much like the narrator, was only

She hides her thoughts from him and uses a secret journal as an escape to express her true feelings. At first, Jane hates the yellow wallpaper in her room; but after spending many hours in isolation there, the yellow wallpaper begins to fascinate Jane. Soon, it dominates her thinking and she becomes unusually obsessed with it, identifying with the woman in the wallpaper who seems to be trapped. Eventually, Jane becomes extremely crazy and although she wants to gain freedom, the story ends with her being trapped more than ever by her own crazed state of mind. Throughout the story, the author incorporates literary elements such as irony, imagery, and symbolism to help the reader understand and identify with Jane.

However, she also realized that her deliberate nonconformity to the Reed's concept that Jane “ought to beg, and not live here with gentleman's children like us” will lead her to harsh consequences (12). After Jane's outburst towards John, her Aunt Reed locked her in the red room. The red room was the place that her uncle died in and was rarely occupied after. During her confinement, Jane had a nervous breakdown after seeing a “glowing orb” which was supposedly the spirit of her uncle (19). This incident, while she was still confined to the red room, led her to think intently on the injustices that are placed upon by her relatives.

However, he did not make his wife feel better, which is why they visit there for, he just makes his wife feel worse with so much guilt on her. When she gets settled down in the room she began to see its alarming qualities, like the print in the yellow wallpaper. The narrator expresses that the wallpaper cracking makes her nervous, but her spouse does not respond about the cracking wallpaper. Gilman uses first-person narrator to reveal past and past –tense awareness of her illness. Gilman stated, “There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will”

Using examples from all of the texts from this specific unit compare and contrast the conflicts that drive these struggles of the main characters. Look for similarities and look for differences within those similarities. Look for differences and look for similarities within those differences. In the story “The yellow wall paper” the main character struggles due to her husband oppression and she suffers herself until getting mental ill. She is put by her husband on a nursery home to be taking care of, but her fear, anxiety and necessity of communication and comprehension from her husband and with the outside world doesn’t make her any better “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society stimulus-but John says that very worst thing I can do to think about my condition and confess it always makes me feel bad” (507). She is stalwartly hoping to be taken out of the nursery but she had never confronted her husband.