An Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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The narrator of Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper" rips the wallpaper off the walls in her room for a few reasons. The first reason is because she just does not like the wallpaper. Upon arrival in the room she is staying in she writes how "she has never saw worse paper..." in her life (pg. 1671). She even consults her husband to replace it, but he politely declines (pg. 1672). As the confinement in the room with the yellow wallpaper continues and the narrators "nervousness" progressively gets worse, the narrator starts to become more and more obsessed with the wallpaper and cannot seem to think about much else. She starts to notice a spot in the wallpaper "...where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside