Greg Johnson's Discussion on the Book, The Yellow Wallpaper (Essay Sample)

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The Yellow Wallpaper
Greg Johnson discusses the book, The Yellow Wallpaper as a good example to illustrate the Gothic Allegory (Greg, 30). Greg notes that the book has the themes of regression and rage that contributes to Gothic Allegory. According to Greg, it is possible to read The Yellow Wallpapers as a desperate gesture illustrating self-assertion and autonomy. I agree with Greg because the story in The Yellow Wallpaper is a desperate way to influence women in the so-called self-liberation.The short story has the themes that are similar to the Gothic themes. Such issues include the idea of confinement and rebellion, irrational fear, and forbidden desire. The short story illustrates several Gothic staples that include the distraught heroine, the male antagonist, and the forbidding mansion. The story in The Yellow Wallpaper demonstrates the narrator's gradual inclination into the Gothic world that is characterized by psychic chaos and imaginative freedom. The narrator and her husband's stories bring to light the masculine order, and the routine followed in the domestic setup.The writer of The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman keeps on reminding the reader that the narrator is a habitual writer. Gilman hints that The Yellow Wallpaper is a diary that the narrator uses to record her inward journey that can be described as a turbulent journey (Gilman, 40). The story accounts for a single woman's incipient psychosis, and therefore it is more than just a representation of the attitudes held by male towards the nineteenth century woman.According to Greene, Gretchen, and Adam