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@Emmanuel Romero I like how you dug deeper into the symbolism of the wallpaper. At times it was hard for me to know if she was going crazy from being trapped in that room so often or if it was more of an underlying symbolism as you explained of her being trapped in a marriage where she is subject to "traditional" gender norms. Its crazy to think that this actually happened to many women before we had the knowledge about dopamine and seratonin level in our brains.

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In the Yellow Wallpaper, the story seems to take a dark turn pretty quick. Not only does the wording give you a hint, but the way that the narrator describes her mental illness in her journal, shows that this story does not take place in modern times. Mental health was considered a "taboo" subject. Strangely, I know a family member who had a similar experience with her husband who was a doctor in the 1950s. There was so much that was unknown about the brain and its capacity, and mental health still has stigma around it. I think that I agree with the narrator when she complains about being locked up and doing the same thing every day, when depression takes much more than silly regimens to cope with. The woman is locked in a room which she doesn't like, the wallpaper is yellow and different shades of nasty yellowish colors. She feels trapped.

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@Haley To further the point you were making, the way the narrator describes her situation with her husband makes the reader question not only the time period but the relationship between the two characters and if the husband's "love" for the narrator is really genuine. The story builds up a dark tone between the main characters not only through the narrator's mental state but through her external relationships.

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@haley the story does take very progressive darkness throughout as the wife (the narrator) more separated with what is real and what's all in her head. it is pretty apparent that she gets left alone with her thoughts and the only thing that she knew to do was write down how she was feeling.

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@SamanthaCarter I agree with you that the family doesn' take her very seriously and that they believe she is just acting and how it all in all lead to the wife going crazy out of isolation. she ends up becoming a lost cause that could have obviously could have been prevented if they would have taken care of her.

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@Alyx I agree that she became basically crazy being locked in the room with no one else. Also with how she would see things or faces in the wallpaper also did not help her case with being in there all alone. Her husband was just too superstitious so help her get the help she needed and ended up causing more harm than good.

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The author characterizes the narrator by having her be anxious. Also the relationship between her and her husband is made out to be tense by certain word choice making it be diction. The narrator is also sad to be sick and needs to be able to be in an airy space and not do much work since she gets tired fairly quickly. This gives her an aura of mystery as to what she could be sick with. The fact that her husband doesn’t allow her to write seems strange and gives me wonder as to what time era they are in. The narrator also seems lonely considering her husband is gone most of the time and she is left to be in the large room that she doesn’t like and can only write down her feelings instead of talking to him about them. The passage is as a dark theme to it when it’s focused on the wallpaper, with how it goes into detail about the broken neck and eyes. It would seem it makes her go insane and she doesn’t get the proper help from anyone. So with diction and description the author can characterize the narrator of The Yellow Wall-Paper.

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In the story, the yellow wallpaper the narrator's tone comes off that she is put in isolation by her doctor husband and has restricted her from any way of stimulating her brain and acting normal so at the beginning I thought he was crazy to leave and go to a summer home. But he undermines her condition of being nervous depression though she believes that it is something else other than that. She writes down her thoughts to make herself feel better even though she wasn't allowed; she was placed into an isolated room that was supposed to stimulate and help her and there she writes about her surroundings and the yellow wallpaper she started out with how ugly it was and that she wanted it removed and no one listened to her and it stayed but the longer she stayed in that room with the wallpaper the more delirious she got. Nobody helped her in any way just brushing it off as nothing bad. The wall started making her mad as the tone shifted from her being calm and positive to becoming more dark, mad, and crazy because the wall was enhancing her imagination to an irrational level. All in all, leading to her spiraling down to not being able to tell what was going on and how infatuated she became with the yellow wall. All because nobody would listen to her and that she really did have an illness.

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@Tobey Cryer -- I agree with the way you have analyzed this! I like that you brought up how the narrator attempted to follow what she has been told by physicians and how it caused her mental capacity to worsen. I love that you have compared her with the "woman" she sees behind the "paper" and how it represents herself trying to break "free" from the daunting situation of her own life being stuck in the bedroom due to her husband's wishes and orders.

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@Eli, I agree with how you used the knowledge of the type of marriages in this time period. You tied in how women were supposed to be "domestic" and "normal". Meanwhile the narrator was the complete opposite of this due to her illness. This lead to her isolation by the husband and her family who did not wish to face what was wrong with her and took the latter of disregarding her state. You then tie in this thought to your conclusion of her ripping out the women trapped in these marriages that she sees as herself.

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@Alyxandira Thompson -- [Hello Alyx!!] I totally agree with your analysis of the Yellow Wallpaper. That the main character ends up deteriorating on her own due to the ignorance of those she relies on for help. It was saddening to read that no one believed her or pushed it off as a minor illness, as we see by the end of the passage that this was in fact not the case. Being "locked away up in a bedroom" had an dramatic toll on her already fragile state of mental well-being.

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In the beginning of the passage the author creates a literary tone of conflict and a feeling of darkness in regards to the narrator and her husband. He doesn't believe she has an illness due to his non-belief in "faith" or "superstition." Yet when we take a look at the illness that the narrator has; it is not some type of superstition that the husband characterizes it as. What she has is a mental illness, something along the lines of depression or psychosis. I believe the author wanted to make it apparent that this woman wasn't just acting out like her husband and the rest of her family believed; the proper medicine and awareness hadn't been developed in that time so the poor wife had to wast away without proper treatment. This would explain the personification of the wallpaper as faces seem to track her while the narrator is fixated on the paper. Throughout the documentation of the barred off room that she is isolated in, the yellow wallpaper becomes her only object that she can focus on. While her illness becomes more out of control, the story continues its overall tone of dark and gothic due to the time period in which it was written. Even by the end of her documentary she is never able to get the treatment she needs and is overtaken by her illness.

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@Dillon Massey First of all, hi Dillon. Second of all, I agree with your analysis of the walls of the house being symbolic of her trapped inside her own mind. She is prisoner in her own house, which is the typical modern attitude of how women were treated in married life in years before, and faded out more and more as life became more egalitarian. And I agree with your opinion that as the narrator receives more and more neglect and mental abuse from her husband, that her mind continues to fall apart, and that the story represents that by the narrator writing about her "vivid imagination."

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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the story is presented as a journal of a woman married to a many named John. Their marriage is "happy" and "normal" as said by her husband, but truly is a prime example of married life for the stationary, domestic life of the woman, and the travelling, working life of the man. In the story, it is not directly stated that this is the primary theme of the narrative, yet all the signs point to a life of submission that the narrator lives. She never leaves the house, and is told not to "think" or do anything active, which is how the story is written as the narrator writes in a secret journal she keeps hidden from her husband. John states that she is losing her grip on reality, as he is her doctor of sorts, and that her wild fantasies should cease. The narrator writes about her obsession with the yellow wallpaper, which at first she thinks is dirty and repulsive. As the story progresses, and with the the continued mental abuse from John, she becomes maddened by the effort to decrypt the meaning of the wallpaper, as if it is something that needs to be decoded. She begins to see a woman, trapped behind the pattern of the wallpaper. This is an obvious symbol of the typical married woman, trapped behind the bars of tradition and domestic life. The narrator begins to believe that she is like the woman in the wallpaper, and that there are many of them, trapped, and that they creep outside on the grounds of her house. At the end of the story, the narrator tears the Yellow Wallpaper off the wall in the attempt to free the struggling, trapped woman, symbolic of breaking free of her traditional gender roles, but her consequence in the story is a shattered mind, as she is driven completely insane, as seen by her husband.

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In the Yellow wallpaper written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author portrays the young woman as a sweet little naive thing that believes she has some aliment, but everyone just says she's fine, get some rest and take some medicine they say. She goes to many people trying to get them to help her, and after they've all pushed her away she decides to go to her physician husband, and ends up getting locked away in a bedroom to the point she begins acting ludicrous and tearing the room apart. By the time her husband John has realized something is acutely wrong, 'the yellow paper wallpaper had stated to smell and clump, she see's odd faces and shapes' tearing the walls apart, and when she finally bares the walls her husband faints blocking her escape route.

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@Sam Turner I'm absolutely in love with the observation of the narrator's mental state being a parallel to the undesirable, vacated room within the property. Beside this, I agree with the point you made of the journal entries being more so about the author's deteriorating mental state as opposed to anything else. For a woman to experience increasing psychosis despite being surrounded by a number of medical professionals is a very ironic topic.

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In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator writes in a diary about her life at a vacation house for which she lived at for three months. Through the uses of tone and imagery, Stetson portrays the deteriorating mental state of the narrator throughout the course of the story. At the beginning of the story, the narrator’s writing is sprinkled with sarcasm, portraying a more light tone. This is aided by the narrator’s willingness to oblige with her husband’s questionable orders to isolate herself in a distasteful nursery room atop the home. Despite the narrator’s request for further aid, her husband John simply dubs her condition as a “nervous depression”, and it can be cured with lots of rest and other home remedies. The isolation within this room causes the narrator’s condition to worsen, filling her mind with disturbing images of things that don’t exist. As the story progresses, the tension between the narrator and John grows, as she becomes more weary of his actions, questioning his choice to avoid her and becoming emotionally unavailable. Visions of a woman within the walls of this nursery room plague the narrator, until she sees the woman within the walls as herself. As the woman is trapped within the walls, the narrator is trapped within that room, void of any emotional and psychotic assistance she may need.

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(I accidentally hit the enter key, but I'm going to keep going) ... fall into insanity.

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Charolette Stetson begins The Yellow Wallpaper with an ominously luxurious home that causes her to wonder how her husband acquired such a fancy estate. The "queer" feeling the narrator experiences regarding the house leads her to discussing her unusal ailments which are dismissed by her physician husband, John. Beginning with a supression of an ailment not visible to the eye alludes to the yellow wallpaper within the wonderfully facaded estate. As the story develops it is obvious that there is an unusual dynamic with the narrator and her husband. The point that their dysfunction is made most evident is when John puts the narrator in the distrissingly furnished upstairs room with barred windows. Once the narrator is placed in this room she is exposed the yellow wallpapered room. The room that John had placed his wife in to help her mental state ironically becomes the trigger that sends her spiralling into delirium. As the journal entries progress; there is an increased fixation and paranoia regarding the yellow wallpaper with the narrator hallucinating a woman trapped within the wallpaper. The story is overall very creepy and has an insidious development regarding the narrators

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The author, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, of The Yellow Wall-Paper begins her tale of a woman out to the country to get some air since she is seemingly sick despite what physicians may say. Just anxiety and nervousness she’s told. She begins keeping to her work in her secret. Writing her laments in a journal to get them out to something that cannot deny her. She has been ordered to stay home, rest, get some air, and take tonics, an overall boring lifestyle that is believed to be more harmful than good in her eyes. As the room she spends most of her time in is one with a sickly, faded, and torn yellow wall-paper. Something she is described as being viciously assaulted by mentally. She begins to write all about the paper and its atrocities, including how she is drawn to attempt following the pattern to an end but she is constantly stuck finding a failing shape and lines that leave her exhausted. The more she stares the more she believes she sees women behind the paper who are screaming to be free of this paper as the narrator herself is. She begins spending sleepless nights staring at the women thinking of how to free them. And understands that she can one day, when her husband has finally left her alone for a while. She can simply lock the door and get to work tearing at the paper in a desperate attempt for freedom in shredding the paper off the wall, allowing escape from the paper and relief for her. Her husband comes in and she is ecstatic, finally escaping from the paper and never to be put back.

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In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the narrator portrays herself as a sick person who can’t get the right help because no one believes her. Such as her husband, John, who’s a physician of high standing. Her brother is another physician who says the same thing. Irritated by the actions of her husband, she begins to keep a diary of sorts to bring her solace. The woman notes that she gets unreasonably angry toward John, because of her nervous depression. Friends and family state that her condition is just something slight and temporary, pushing off that the woman may really have an issue. Over the summer for 3 months, the couple move out to a beautiful house. One particular room is compared to a child’s room with a yellow wallpaper. The vivid imagery and description used for the yellow wallpaper of the bedroom wall parallels the woman’s condition. At the first stage of the story when the couple moves in, she is simply trying to voice her concerns that she may have a problem, but at this time it’s not serious so the walls are mostly intact with a few patches. Further on in the woman’s journal entries, she mentions her husband is away more and more and his sister Jennie has come to help. The yellow wallpaper has started to smell and the paint is chipping off in clumps. She can see odd shapes and faces as her eyes follow it around the room. It’s vital to John that she remains strong, for he believes it’s only her who can get herself out of this condition and chooses to keep her up in the room. Some days, the narrator’s mood is better and the wall seems to glow in the daylight. However in the end, the woman has had enough. Her family is concerned and cares deeply, yet the woman cannot see past her own emotions and thoughts see. John has called for help and is at the door pleading, begging with his wife. As she looked over her shoulder to her husband, she said that it's “in spite of you and Jane” and that she has “pulled off most of the paper, so [John] can’t have [her] back!” The man then fainted, blocking the path the woman needed to creep away and the walls were finally bare.

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In The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892, the narrator starts out by portraying the main character as herself, being some sweet simple lady, possibly writing in a journal of some type, describing the surroundings of her home. The main character shows that she is a very controlling wife over her husband. She contrasts his practical, rationalistic manner in her own sensitive ways. Little does her husband know that while she is writing in this journal, she is trying to hide it from him as well and is doing a very good job. Gilman uses imagery and very high descriptive word choices to illustrate how she is doing mentally and also how she is treating her husband. Then one day, she just goes crazy and starts going on a frenzy. She started to tear up her journal and is trying to get the women stuck in the paper out of her mind. She believes that this is one way to help. In the end, the narrator has gone completely insane, convinced that all the voices she is hearing in her head are women hiding in the wallpaper. In the end, she finds her husband in the doorway fainted after her breaks out of the room she locked him in and he sees the terrors she has done to the house.

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Read "The Yellow Wallpaper." How does the author characterize the narrator? What literary techniques are used to achieve this? Respond in at least 200 words by Thursday at 11:59 pm. You must also respond to two peers in 50 words or more by Saturday at 11:59.