The Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper -- The Yellow Wallpaper

The Narrator of The Yellow WallpaperIn The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator becomes more depressed throughout the story because of the recommendation of isolation that was make to her. In this short story the narrator is detained in a lonesome, drab room in an attempt to free herself of a nervous disorder. The narrators husband, a physician, adheres to this belief and forces his wife into a treatment of solitude. Rather than heal the narrator of her psychological disorder, the treatment only contributes to its effects, driving her into a severe falloff. on a lower floor 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 physically restrain her the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The narrator is affected no t only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the rooms yellow paper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the cripple uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. entirely through the story the yellow wallpaper acts as an antagonist causing her to become very annoyed and disturbed. There is nothing to do in the mystical room but stare at the wallpaper. The narrator tells of the haphazard pattern having no organization or symmetrical plot. Her constant examination of and reflection o... ...reep oer him every 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 upon h erself. 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 do by is actually strengthened to the point of a serious mental illness. Similarly in like a shots society, medical and psychological advice may have the equivalent effect. Medical technology and practice have progressed considerably 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 .