In this story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, many different points of views, and motives occur. For example, in the beginning of the story, the protagonist had her suspicions about the wallpaper. However, her main focus was to get well and get back to work. Due to her troubles such as being sick and not being productive, she says she feels as though her brother and husband has “forbidden to work until I am well again”. This is a dilemma for her because she stresses the inability to be a productive mother and wife. Also, it is causing her to become moody. Because she has so much alone time on her hands considering her husband is out taking care of other sick patients while she requests Jennie to give her alone time arguing it will be a better cure for her, she uses that time to study the wall paper a bit more and widens her imagination by turning nothing into something. She becomes so obsessed with the idea at one point that she sees both her husband and Jennie as possible competition. “I caught him several times staring at the paper” “and Jennie too” suggests that this no longer is about killing time but in fact is about uncovering the missing pieces to her theory which was that with regards to the paper, “the woman behind shakes it”, and getting to the mystery FIRST. It can be inferred that based off of her husband’s demands such as staying home and suggesting her to be unproductive can mean he has some type of knowledge on the paper and is trying to keep it a secret considering he acts as though he has no clue as to what is going on. Also, he tries to convince her of not paying mind toward the idea of the paper having a vivid image/ meaning behind it. For example, she says “he says i must use self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me”. This to me suggests he has something to do with the paper due to him trying to give his wife a new motive such as being a better wife and mother rather than focusing on the paper, which he secretly could be trying to solve as well. This shows that there are many different motives from the beginning to end because in the beginning of the story she intends to be a better wife for her husband and a better mother to her daughter. However, as she becomes more drawn into her little “fancy” her motive changes to her not even worrying about that and in fact worrying about getting to solve the mystery even if it involves going against her husband 

The title “The Yellow Wall-paper” states that there will be a yellow wallpaper and it starts off with the protagonist being ill. She is married to a physician named John and sought out for his medical expertise because of his “high standing” as a physician. John and the protagonist’s brother, who is also a physician of high standing, told her that she was going to be okay and doesn’t believe that she is sick. Immediately I thought of two things which was 1) you already know that this person isn’t going to be alright in the end and it’ll be like one of those scary movies where the person goes insane. And 2) why didn’t see seek out more medical attention. To get “better” her husband recommended her medication and not to do strenuous activities. Soon after she was brought to a room upstairs and in quote the room was “propellant, almost revolting” (page 3). After thinking for a bit, her freedom was compromised because of her “health issues.”  She was given advice about getting better and followed through with her husband with complete trust without knowing that her health would only get worse. She has told us that she is a bit of a writer and wasn’t allowed to even write because John said so.

She constantly tells John about a room change to go downstairs for example, “Then do let us go downstairs” (page 3). What the husband could have done was just paint over the horrendous color. It was describe as “dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others”  and that “no wonder children hated it! I should have hate it myself if i I had to live in this room long (page 3). I inferred that she would go insane in the end if she remained in the same room.  She starts seeing things when John’s sister came to visit. “I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure…” (page 4) and at this point I think she is starting to lose it being stuck in the same room for a while with her condition.  Something about the way she perceived the pattern made her want John to take her away from the room. She fears her husband will leave in the morning and wants to talk to her husband but,  he is so delusional. He trusts his judgement and wholeheartedly believes that she isn’t “that sick.” And because of that, she never said a word afterwards and that would be the turning point of story. After that, she kept on looking at the yellow wallpaper and at this point I believe that her sickness got the better of her. She didn’t want to trouble her husband no more after that night and began acting strangely. She was ripping the yellow wallpaper off and sees a woman imprisoned behind the yellow wallpaper. She has finally lost it when she was walking around the room and John fainted. Even though he fainted, she continued to walk around the room.

I think the one of the themes in the story was that her role as a woman was being oppressed by her loving husband and where she stands in the household. Her husband told her that writing would only make her health worse if she continued. But she continue writing in her journal even though John didn’t want her to.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte is about the narrator who faces many challenges of keeping her sanity throughout the novel. The story mostly explains that the narrator has an “illness” which is never said what it is exactly but it is most likely a mental condition. She is married to a man named Jon who looking out for. The narrator uses imagery throughout the whole novel. Like in the second paragraph of the first page, it explains the couple moving into a mansion that appeared as if it was hunted. They moved into this house for the narrator rest due to her illness. She wishes to work her mind and write however her husband prohibits it. He believes that will make her even worse. She disagrees and believes a she will get better if she entertains herself by writings. I certainly believe that would have been a wise decision because she does get into a bad position. 

Reading throughout the novel the I got pretty bored because nothing interesting was happen. The narrator keeps describing the setting outside and inside the mansion. Like on the sixteenth paragraph on page one “There is a delicious garden!..” She loved that garden so much that it looked so appealing. Also on the fourth to the tenth paragraph on the second page, in detail she explains how “revolting” the wallpaper was in their room. This wallpaper is yellow. From this moment I foreshadow that the novel will cause a huge conflict with the narrator from the title, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Afterwards the narrator was losing her mind due to the wallpaper. She intends to fight off the wallpaper in her mind by spending time with her family members but she continues to approach the wallpaper. This wallpaper no longer feel “revolting” it felt more like it was evil. She grows so obsessive with the wallpaper that she finds changes within the wallpaper. In paragraph six of page seven, “There are always new shoots on the fungus, and shades of yellow all over it.” I believe this is from her illness, she can’t control herself anymore and believe that there is something wrong with the wallpaper. This obsession of her feels like she is being possessed by the wallpaper. Later she sees an image of a woman through out the house and on the wallpaper and won’t leave her be. This whole thing gets show strange to the point where she lost her mind and went wild with the wallpaper.

The author uses such detailed imagery to describe the atmosphere of the setting. You feel being disgusted of the wallpaper and how irritating it is. The author also uses a time sequence to see how each day the narrator become more active about the wallpaper. The feeling was just being sick of the wallpaper to the point where you go mad. Using her illness to proceed to the plot was well written as well.