The Narrator and Structure of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Book Review Sample)

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The Yellow Wallpaper is considered a significant piece of feminist writing. Gilman wrote it and it was originally published in the late 1800s. Through her depiction of the wallpaper of the nursery where the protagonist is imprisoned, Gilman indirectly represents lunacy as a result of social tyranny. 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a fascinating analysis of the despicable through a woman's metamorphosis from author to a spouse to mother. The trauma of birth and infantilization causes the author's barriers between her and herself to disintegrate. As a result, she begins to lose her mind.
'The Yellow Wallpaper is a first-person narrative about a young woman who is trying to reconcile her cognitive self with her duty as a spouse and mother. Gilman conjures another traditional Gothic concept of women by pitting the speaker against the female behind the wallpaper, who is allowed to wander (Davison, 2004). The narrator's repressed hatred and dread are then projected onto the wallpaper outside of him. Gilman uses the Female Gothic convention of the dualism inside the single self of the speaker to demonstrate the alienation of self (Davison, 2004).