Assignment 3-The Yellow Wallpaper

When you start reading the story you may think that it is about a married woman who deals with depression and lucky her because her husband is also her doctor,but in fact it is the contrary.More precisely her husband is making her depressed by isolating her in a room with yellow wallpaper and limiting her to live her life.There is a sentence in the story:”but john says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition.” How she would not think about her condition when she is locked up as a prisoner and doing nothing even changing the color of the room.That yellow that was just straggling her.Well this color which is also the title of the book is also one of the main symbols of the story.It symbolizes her depression,sickness.It is said that every color has its own characteristics.Yellow for many people represents envy while for some others it stands for happiness something needed to the main character.Maybe the reason why john didn’t let her to redecorate the room was because he thought it would help her getting better,but this doesn’t change the fact he was over controlling her life.This pressure of John towards her shows us an important theme which is related to gender role.Something interesting is that this story was written at the 19^th century by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who had also been depressed  and tries to reveal  the gender differences,the dominance of men over women,the way how women were treated at those times.Going back to our story there are two other symbols which can be  as a refuge for the narrator :the window  which was her favourite place and the  diary where on one side she could express her feelings,thoughts but on the other side it emphasized her limitations because her husband didn’t let her to write down nothing.At the beginning I didn’t like much the story,but something that  attracted me was the end.She waited a long time until she relized that she is the only person who knows what is the best for her.After she understood it she ripped off that horrible yellow paper while her husband fainted.This seems to be  the end of the story but the beginig of a new life for the narrator.