Henry, Sandoval
Dr. Jefferies
STACC 100
18 November 2014
Symbol of The Yellow Wallpaper
Well I will like to start off is that is there ever a house you been in and thought the wallpaper or
the color in the house /room was just hideaous? In the short story the “The Yellow Wallpaper’”
The narrator states “the color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow,
strangely faded by the slow-turing sunlight.”(pg.87) Well the symbol is literally the title and why
is that you say? Well one thing is she gives evidence how she feels toward the wallpaper. Then
she courtics it and then after parids it. She switches on and off feelings toward the wallpaper.
This also shows the meaning to the wallpaper. Why did she choose the wallpaper? The main
thing that she wanted a meaning towards it like she wanted the wallpaper to have a purpose in
the moment so she can escape her reality. In the article The Writing’s on the Wall” Symbolic
Orders in ‘The Yellow Wallper’ states “ As do most feminist and linguistic analyses of “The
Yellow Wallpaper,” my Lacanian reading of the story represensts partriarchy, or specifically the
arrogant abuse of patriarchal authority, as the primary source of the protagonist’s ultimately
complete inability to separate fantasy from reality.”
The narrator doesn’t like it at first she describes herself as meantally ill or disabalr. She
belivens her husband and brother because they are physicans. This means that’s all she belived.
This also lead her to going, and living at this house where the yellow wallpaper is located at. She
didn’t have a sense in mind why she was there really only knowing that because she was sick.
She tells herself she is “sick.” This claim to me is false, because she shows no sign of any kind of
sickness intel she entered that house.
The narrator is praised as sick so she belivens it. The her husband and house keeper tell her that
she is sick because she writes and shouldn’t be doing that. This proves that she is only doing
what she feels right to do for herself, but cannot express verably so she writes. Back then women
weren’t allowed to write or even seem intelligent because that was not right for women to do.
The article Hanging ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’: Feminism and Textual Studies. States that,
“feminist may wish to ensure that the genius, the individuality, the voices of the women writers
are represented and heard with integrity.” This shows that the narrotr was part of this feminist
and that’s what lead to her writing in secret.
The Yellow wallpaper was not just a symbol but yet known as a charcter as well. The narrator
couldn’t write in her own peace and not to be bother by her husband in which he didn’t like her
to write. She needed a place to escape something to help her or anything to not see the reality she
was in today. So she created the wall to escape and not face reality because she didn’t have any
control of her life and she had to be someone she isn’t. More later in the story her husband and
house keeper noticed she was acting weird and felt like she was hiding something. The more
spisous they get the more she is more in realtiy and isn’t able to escape it. Then she finds out that
her husband is going sleep in the same room as her and she doesn’t know what to do by this
point. So she didn’t know how to hide her secret with the writing and wallpaper. The narrator
felt like the wallpaper was changing her as well and was not ready to face reality. This changes
the eyes of the husband an really sees that her wife is crazy or a compelty different person what
he thought she was. The way he figured out was when she ripped of the Yellow wallpaper from
the walls because she couldn’t handle being two people she was considered in her soictiey today
a “Two face.” This changed the story from the begging through the end because she was
confused in what she wanted for herself. Then she really enjoyed to write but didn’t have the
right to do so.
Work cited
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Suess, Barbara A. "The Writing's On The Wall" Symbolic Orders In 'The Yellow
Wallpaper'." Women's Studies 32.1 (2003): 79. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Nov.
2014.
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St. Jean, Shawn. "Hanging 'The Yellow Wall-Paper': Feminism And Textual
Studies." Feminist Studies 28.2 (2002): 397. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.