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

The Importance of the wall account in The chicken Wall reputation The jaundiced Wall topic takes a close look at peerless womans mental deterioration. The narrator 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, but ends with an intimate and liberating connection. During the gradual change in the relationship between the narrator and the wallpaper, the yellow paper becomes a mirror, reflecting the move the woman is going through in her room. When the narrator first sees the paper she is repulsed by the shade and the radiation pattern. It is something she hates and yet she rout outnot ignore it. The repellent and repulsive paper soon becomes the topic of her journal entries. The first personification of the wallpaper is when she notices where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyeball stare at you upside down...I never proverb so much expression in an inanimate thing in the lead. This indicates that, just as John and Jennie watch her, the paper appears to be watching her too. She speaks of the paper as another presence in the room. The reader can see that the paper is starting to become more fascinating to her than the out of doors world when her attention to the view 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 studying it. I know a teeny-weeny 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. sixth ed. New York Harper Collins, 1995. 424-36. Hume, Beverly A. Gilmans Interminable Grotesque The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. Studies in Short Fiction 28.4 (1991)477-84. Johnson, Greg. Gilmans Gothic Allegory ire 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 Ghostly Double behind the Wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper. Haunting 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.