The yellow wallpaper is more or less disorganized. ... The yellow wallpaper also acts as physical entrapment to the main character. ... Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. ... The yellow wallpaper acts like a mental entrapment for the main character. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" provides symbolic meanings for the main character. ...
She notices every tear and discoloration within the wallpaper. ... From that point on it takes only a brief period of time before she starts to make the wallpaper come to life with the ideas of women being caught behind the wallpaper. ... The "yellow" can be the representation of her room, confined, not allowed to do as she wished and to not have any input. ... By giving into the life of the "yellow", she could consider herself freed from the confines of her husband fussing over her. ... The green world was foreign to her; the yellow world was what she was familiar with and comfortable with. ...
The structure of The Yellow Wallpaper creates a sense of immediacy and intimacy. ... Even more disturbing to the narrator, however, is the yellow wallpaper, peeling or pulled off the walls in strips. ... The narrator's morbid fascination with the yellow wallpaper is the first clue of her degenerating sanity. ... The woman behind the wallpaper becomes an obsession. ... Left alone, the narrator locks herself in the nursery to allow uninterrupted time for peeling wallpaper and thus freeing the shadowy woman. ...
In looking at "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman, we will consider the tone and narrative structures in each story. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman's point of view is expressed through first person narration, which provides her readers with short views into the other characters" perception of her and her perceptions of them. ...
