Iqra tariq “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” response

“The Yellow Wallpaper”Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a mysterious and queer feeling. The narrator herself admits she is suffering from depression, yet her husband John keeps telling her she just needs rest and doesn’t seem to want to deal with it. He keeps repeating that he loves her and for him that she gets better. John seems to be quite selfish and says he cares for her, but instead ignores what she feels inside and dusts it aside. The narrator is always seems to be alone, and sometimes the most scary thing is to be left alone with your thoughts. The narrator keeps repeating that she sees a women in the paper and that she is seeing her with these eyes. She also talks about how in the light she is able to see the pattern, in a way the author is showing the readers how it seems the narrator is actually seeing herself in the wallpaper. The scary person she see’s is actually the image she see’s of herself, and how the women she see’s is trapped is actually her. She feels closed up and wants to escape which is the reason, when she is ripping the paper, and thinks the women inside of the wallpaper is also doing the same thing, it is just a way of the narrator to escape. In the end we see how she starts to hate john, and he has a role in her depression. She wants to escape the “ropes” , instead he seems to tighten it. The narrator is afraid to see the scary image in her that is forming becomes of her depression.