Gilbert’s short story “The yellow wallpaper” Essay

Gilberts chronical of her ca use descent into madness is set in a remote, isolated older home, with very scenic surroundings, and more in particular and old nursery in which Gilbert is imprisoned for her own saneness. The ironic point is that it is the cure for her insanity that creates the insanity she ultimately adopts. The narrator is a repressed muliebrity with nowhere to go except madness. As a parallel to Kate Chopins Story of an Hour in which death was the escape to emancipation, Gilbert emphasizes that the narrators only escape to freedom was madness.The story is divided into time frames with to each one period detailling her descent into madness. In the source section it is wise to keep that both John and her familiar are prominent physicians and believe that she needs to be unstimulated in order to overcome post-partum depression, as was honest by such prominent theorist as Sels Weir Mitchell, who was in fact Gilberts own physician at the time the story was writt en. ( as a side note It is of interest to note that after reading Gilberts account of her own feelings in this short story, Wier Mitchell discontinued the use of rest therapy.) We discover in later time frames that John is in denial of his wifes deteriorating medical condition, mainly as a result of the societal stigmas of mental ailment and the affluence of his status.The room that is the primary setting is very institutionalized and unstimulating. There is this dilapitated, detoriorating, smelly, yellow wall typography with a design representative of Gilberts madness, that howevertually becomes her savior. As she succumbs to dymentia, the narrator has hallucinations of a women puke the wallpaper. The narrator becomes convinced this woman is trapped by the wallpaper but yet, manages to successfully escape even if only to slink around the shrubbery. The narrator identifies with the delusions, eventually forging with the delusion, making the separation of one from the former(a) i mpossible.She describes in detail the horror of those around her as they become to realise the extent of the mental unwellness hidden in the narrator. The speakermakes reference to feelings of paranoia that John and Jenny are going to somehow horn in on the relationship she has with the wallpaper, and admits that she liked the room inspite of the wallpaper, no because of the wallpaper. The wallpaper represent to the narrator., a chance for freedom and the cost was insanity, just as the intricate design that was a crime against all the rules of design that had been implied upon first consideration.