Throughout
the whole story our character experiences a personal, emotional and mental
growth. I wish I could say that she found the force within herself to surpass
her husband wishes but unfortunately she had to get to that point of her mental
state, in which it would be extremely hard to go back and make decisions on her
own, with a clear mind.
A mental illness is never something physical. People who suffer from it often need an escape from the war that’s happening inside their soul and thoughts. Our character’s escape was to write. That’s what kept her sane during her awful and domestic life. Sometimes having thoughts that don’t apply to the place where you live or with the people you surround yourself with leads you astray from their reality. Being controlled by another person, doing as they say and most importantly not being understood when opening up to them is the biggest downfall one may suffer. In this case her husband didn’t want to accept her reality. He claimed to love her but the truth is that he only loved himself. He wanted her to get better in order for him to happy with her. Not at one moment did he try to understand the depths of her. He never tore down that hideous wallpaper nor allowed her to socialize the way she wanted to.
The author has used the color yellow for the wallpaper and that's because yellow is often related with sickness or weakness. It almost gives a background of her life and the woman she sees creeping out of the wall is herself. She wants to escape. She feels as a prisoner in her own life. Being the perfect housewife, always listening to a husband who wouldn’t understand and that drove her to insanity.
I absolutely loved that transitory moment in which she caved in and started to like that paper. That reveals that her pain of feeling trapped was so deep in her that she would've become completely rotten unless she broke free. Our character always made the most of the options given to her. She fell in love with that horrible wallpaper so much that she could sense it everywhere, smell it and analyze in such way that she became delusional. Yet she managed to abandon her husband beliefs and empower herself enough to change her reality.
What is interesting about the ending is that when Jennie saw the wallpaper it made no difference to her whatsoever but when John saw it, he fainted. That’s a symbol the author has used to show that in that particular moment the husband is the weak one and that he can no longer control her mind.
A mental illness is never something physical. People who suffer from it often need an escape from the war that’s happening inside their soul and thoughts. Our character’s escape was to write. That’s what kept her sane during her awful and domestic life. Sometimes having thoughts that don’t apply to the place where you live or with the people you surround yourself with leads you astray from their reality. Being controlled by another person, doing as they say and most importantly not being understood when opening up to them is the biggest downfall one may suffer. In this case her husband didn’t want to accept her reality. He claimed to love her but the truth is that he only loved himself. He wanted her to get better in order for him to happy with her. Not at one moment did he try to understand the depths of her. He never tore down that hideous wallpaper nor allowed her to socialize the way she wanted to.
The author has used the color yellow for the wallpaper and that's because yellow is often related with sickness or weakness. It almost gives a background of her life and the woman she sees creeping out of the wall is herself. She wants to escape. She feels as a prisoner in her own life. Being the perfect housewife, always listening to a husband who wouldn’t understand and that drove her to insanity.
I absolutely loved that transitory moment in which she caved in and started to like that paper. That reveals that her pain of feeling trapped was so deep in her that she would've become completely rotten unless she broke free. Our character always made the most of the options given to her. She fell in love with that horrible wallpaper so much that she could sense it everywhere, smell it and analyze in such way that she became delusional. Yet she managed to abandon her husband beliefs and empower herself enough to change her reality.
What is interesting about the ending is that when Jennie saw the wallpaper it made no difference to her whatsoever but when John saw it, he fainted. That’s a symbol the author has used to show that in that particular moment the husband is the weak one and that he can no longer control her mind.
Even though this is not particularly good for her because her demons finally got to her, we can at least still see the guilt in her husband action when he fainted. He can never get her back, ever again.
She's free in her own way now.
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