The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper -- The Yellow Wallpaper

The Narrator of The Yellow wallpaperIn The Yellow paper the bank clerk becomes more depressed throughout the storey because of the recommendation of isolation that was made to her. In this short story the narrator is detained in a lonesome, drab room in an take on to free herself of a nervous disorder. The narrators husband, a physician, adheres to this notion and forces his wife into a treatment of solitude. Rather than heal the narrator of her psychic disorder, the treatment only contri only whenes to its effects, driving her into a severe effect. Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the country, where in she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental wellness but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to tangiblely restrain her the windows are barred for little children, and there are ring and things in the walls. The narrator is affected not on ly by the physical restraints but also by universe exposed to the rooms chicken wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. It is dull tolerable to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly scold and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little length they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at repulsive angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. All through the story the yellow wallpaper acts as an antagonist causing her to become very squiffy and disturbed. There is nothing to do in the secluded room but stare at the wallpaper. The narrator tells of the haphazard pattern having no system of rules or symmetrical plot. Her constant examination of and reflection o... ...reep over him both time Clearly this treatment is issued with good intentions but fails to bring about positive results. Gilman tries to show that according to her husband, the narrator continually brings her great depression upo n herself. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman also attempts to show that the lack of social exposure, physical repression, and ugly wallpaper cause the treatment to be extremely ineffective and detrimental. The disorder which is being treated is actually strengthened to the point of a serious mental illness. Similarly in todays society, medical and psychological advice may have the same effect. Medical technology and practice have progressed well since the time of the Yellow Wallpaper. This is not to say that todays physicians are infallible. Perhaps some of todays treatments are the Yellow Wallpaper of the future .