The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis Essay

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An Analysis of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by the female American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. First published in 1892, it was created at a time of transformation in the history of the United States and is considered a feminist text.
The fiction is presented in the first person as a collection of diaries written by the depressed wife(the narrator, protagonist), whose physician husband (John, antagonist) has confined her to a summer rental house with disturbing yellow wallpaper in the master bedroom. From first impression, John is a good husband taking care of his sick wife. However, as the story goes on, something more disturbing than both the yellow wall paper and Jane’s