The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis
By Rizka Elliyin (10320023)
The Yellow Wallpaper is a thoughtful story which was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story was first published in 1899 by Small & Maynard Boston, MA. The Yellow Wallpaper tells about the problem of a family and the mystery of The Yellow Wallpaper that this family had.
First character in this story is the woman as the protagonist and as the narrator too, who disagree with her husband thinking. John, her husband is the antagonist who works as a doctor. He is a flat character as a successful doctor who take care his wife’s health. Afterwards, the woman, the john’s wife is the round character who is annoyed because of the wallpaper itself. Actually, the direct method of characterization was applied in this story. The narrator visualizes the character by telling it directly in the story.
The setting is in a rented house during the summer. The house is the colonial mention that the woman guessed is scared. The house is surrounded by gardens and woods with a lovely shaded winding road. Somehow, the room in which the woman stays is the main setting. The scared yellow wallpaper is located at that room. Suddenly, the woman feels that the wallpaper became a moving prison while john never notices about its presence.
This story has an interesting plot with chronological order. The exposition happens when the narrator or the woman feels bad in the rented house, then when the woman want to spent her time writing but her husband forces her to take a rest. The rising action takes place when the woman begins despondent with the shades of someone who trapped within the yellow wallpaper. The climax happens when the narrator or the woman is definitely getting crazy and do not know what to do to face that wallpaper. The falling action is when john tries to know about his wife’s desire. The denouement occurs when john is really confused to face of his wife’s craziness. The conclusion happens when the narrator or the wife try hard to pass the mystery of wallpaper in which she has reached a freedom at the end.
The surprised horror thing in this story is the narrator gets the difficulty to understand her own self. She observes herself has a relationship with someone who trapped in wallpaper. However, she has brought herself apart in getting free of it. In short, it is a very thoughtful story in which the reader should observe deeply in order to catch the whole implicit and explicit meaning of it.
