Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" stars a young wife, and her husband in their country side home. They, however, are not the average couple. The wife, Jane, is mentally insane. The true question of the novel is whether she was crazy before, or if her husband, John, drove her to the brink of insanity. In any case the concept of Jane's mental instability plays a vital role in establishing the larger themes of the story.
At the begging of the story Jane seems mentally stabile and spends her time describing the yellow wallpaper, and her dislike of it. By the end, however, Jane's stability is lost; she is a quivering helpless woman, who believes that she came out of the wallpaper. The important themes arise in the time between these events, in the span where Jane is losing her grip on insanity. It is during this time that the developing theme of relationships and trust within them forms. The traditional relationship is formed and throughout the piece we notice the......
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