The Importance Of Realism In The Yellow Wallpaper

In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Jane is forced to be locked up in an upstairs room by her husband, John. The room she is forced to stay in is very sketchy and creepy. Jane lived a depressing life during these months living in that room. She didn’t have any freedom. Many situations occurred where people think that she was going insane or she was being haunted. Jane and the room show signs of a haunting thorugh the yellow wallpaper, the figure she sees, and her weird habit of creeping around.

One of the primary ways in which something about haunting is the yellow wallpaper. In the text, it demonstrates, “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.” (Stetson 650). At first, she hated the wallpaper and thought it was ugly and old. Then all of a sudden, she started loving it. During the few weeks she was sttaying in that room, she got used to the wall so much that it became almost like her main priority. She was very possessive of it and didn’t let anyone near it or touch it. In the text, it states,“Then she said that

In the text, it states, “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.” (Stetson 652). Jane dazes off when she stares at the wall. The longer she looks, she sees the figure clearer. The figure that she sees changes as the light of the room changes. For example, when the sun shoots in through the window. In the text, it demonstrates, “ At night in any kind of light, in twiglight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by monlight, it becomes bars ! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.” (Stetson 653). The woman that Jane sees in the wall looks like she is behind bars at night when some source of light hits the wall. Jane claims to see her in every one of her windows