The Importance of the Wallpaper in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Pe

The richness of the Wallpaper in The chickenhearted Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper takes a close look at one womanhoods mental deterioration. The fibber is emotionally isolated from her husband. Due to the lack of interaction with other people the woman befriends the reader by secretively communicating her story in a diary format. Her attitude towards the wallpaper is openly hostile at the beginning, further ends with an intimate and liberating connection. During the gradual change in the relationship mingled with the narrator and the wallpaper, the yellow paper becomes a mirror, reflecting the process the woman is going done in her manner. When the narrator first sees the paper she is repulsed by the shade and the pattern. It is something she hates and moreover she cannot ignore it. The repellent and repulsive paper soon becomes the topic of her diary entries. The first personification of the wallpaper is when she notices where the pattern lolls like a broken in neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you elevation down...I never saw so much saying in an inanimate thing before. This indicates that, just as caper and Jennie watch her, the paper appears to be watching her too. She speaks of the paper as some other presence in the room. The reader can see that the paper is outset to become more fascinating to her than the outside world when her attention to the raft of the countryside abruptly switches back to the wallpaper. As she becomes more isolated in the room her thoughts are filled with the design of the paper almost as if she is perusing it. I crawl in a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ev... ... Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 6th ed. New York Harper Collins, 1995. 424-36. Hume, Beverly A. Gilmans Interminable Grotesque The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short apologue 28.4 (1991)477-84. Johnson , Greg. Gilmans Gothic Allegory Rage and Redemption in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (1989)521-30. King, Jeannette and Pam Morris. On Not Reading between the Lines Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 26.1 (1989) 23-32. Owens, E. Suzanne. The unearthly Double behind the Wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper. persistent the House of Fiction. Ed. Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar. Knoxville U of Tennessee P, 1991 64-79. Scharnhorst, Gary. The Yellow Wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Boston Twayne, 1985. 15-20.