The Yellow Wallpaper

Out of all three readings, I found that The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was my favorite. The story was quite interesting in that I was able to relate to the narrators crazy, vivid imagination. For when I was a child, I found that some inanimate objects appeared to have faces or resembled other living things. However, the narrator is expressed in a psychotic manner when she gets more obsessed with the awful yellow wallpaper as the story progresses. She even states that as a child, she got more entertainment and terror from blank walls and plain furniture. With that said, the story gradually builds up her anxiety when she is told to compress her imagination from going wild. As the story moves forward, the narrator starts imagining this entity that appears to be an image of a woman. By day this woman is almost invisible, but when nightfall comes, this women is described as "creeping" the premises. Thus I concluded that there was a direct relation with the women in the wallpaper and the narrator. It was only in the night that the narrator was able to let her imagination run freely in the realms of her mind. I felt like the women was a mirror image of the narrator because it displayed a trapped women trying to escape the bars of her confinement. When the narrator can't restrain it no more, her imagination fully consumes her old identity "Jane" and escapes — the taring of the wallpaper.