Yellow Wallpaper Dialogue
To start with, one can analyze “The Yellow Wallpaper” by examine the dialogue used through the male point of view. Gilman makes a strong statement about males in society during her time period. Charlotte believes that really see women as children more than as actual people. One can see this when the Gilman says, “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- - slight hysterical tendency- - what is one to do?” (Gilman). Charlotte demonstrates the male point of view through dialogue by allowing the narrator to explain that regardless of what she says, her illness will be disregarded, basically shrugged off, by her husband.
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The biggest symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper itself. This wallpaper, the wallpaper that the narrator hates so much, symbolizes one being trapped, one can see this clearly when the Narrator says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out” (Gilman). The feeling of being trapped is demonstrated from the yellow wallpaper because the Narrator begs her husband to remove this wallpaper which she is oh so disgusted by but is refused and so she is forced to live in the horrid room because of the stubborn ways of her husband. This quote is the point in the story where the Narrator basically has a breakthrough; it is where the second kind of women comes to play. In this quote, the narrator realizes that the way she is forced to live is similar to that of a prisoner’s life and she finally sees that her husband’s treatment of her is not right. Towards the end, Charlotte demonstrates how and why the narrator has become so obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper symbolism is shown when the narrator says “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be” (Gilman). Had the narrator been able to change the wallpaper like she so desired, her obsession may not have been an obsession at all but because
The biggest symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper itself. This wallpaper, the wallpaper that the narrator hates so much, symbolizes one being trapped, one can see this clearly when the Narrator says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out” (Gilman). The feeling of being trapped is demonstrated from the yellow wallpaper because the Narrator begs her husband to remove this wallpaper which she is oh so disgusted by but is refused and so she is forced to live in the horrid room because of the stubborn ways of her husband. This quote is the point in the story where the Narrator basically has a breakthrough; it is where the second kind of women comes to play. In this quote, the narrator realizes that the way she is forced to live is similar to that of a prisoner’s life and she finally sees that her husband’s treatment of her is not right. Towards the end, Charlotte demonstrates how and why the narrator has become so obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper symbolism is shown when the narrator says “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be” (Gilman). Had the narrator been able to change the wallpaper like she so desired, her obsession may not have been an obsession at all but because