The Yellow Wall Paper :: Literary Analysis, Gilman, Abcarian, Klotz

The Yellow protect PaperThe Yellow Wall Paper is the accounting about a journey of a cleaning woman who is suffering from a nervous breakdown, descending into madness through her stand-in cure treatment. Basically, the woman is not allowed to read, write or to see her new-born baby. Charlotte Perkins Gilman captures the warmheartedness of this journey into madness by using the first person narration. The accounting plots is by taking the reviewer through the horrors of whizz womans neurosis to make strong statements about the onerousness faced by women in their marriage roles. The narrators moral condition is characterized by her meeting with the wallpaper in her room. In assenting to the storys plot, the use of symbolism and satire throughout her story also show how males dominate during her time.From Literature The Human Experience write by Abcarian and Klotz, Irony is figurative language in which the intended importee differs from the literal meaning (1615). There is m ore than one level of derision at work in this story. Dramatic irony occurs when a reader or audience know things a character does not and, consequently, sees things otherwise (Abcarian & Klotz 1615). Gilman uses dramatic irony when the narrator states, Im feeling so much better (Gilman 1005) as if the narrator believe that she is normal, but when she states I think that woman gets out in the daytime And Ill retell you why-privately- Ive seen her (Gilman 1006), the reader knows that she is actually going in sane. It is dramatic irony because the readers understanding of the narrators speeches is different markedly from the narrators. Through this dramatic irony, Gilman has let the reader knows how complete secrecy can only add to the desolation and push people to the frontier of insanity. The order of rest cure treatment may symbolize her hubbys love towards her, but ironically it makes her condition worse. This plot symbolizes how women were laden and dominated by their husb ands and they had no place for self expression.When the narrator states, I can see her out of my windows I see her in that pine shaded lane, creeping up and down. I see her in those dark grapeshot arbors, creeping all around the garden (Gilman 1006). The reader knows there is no actual woman trapped behind the wallpaper in detail this is a hallucination that seems to be caused by forced isolation as part of her treatment.