The Yellow Wallpaper

In the story of the Yellow wallpaper, the protagonist of the story is suffering from postpartum depression, but no one thinks anything is wrong with her. In the end of the story the woman feels like she has to accomplish what she wanted to when she first arrived at the home, to take down the wallpaper to be free from it. In a sense I think she felt trapped with no way out. The husband finally realizes in the end that she really was not getting better as he faints at the sight he walked in on and sees his wife had tore down the wallpaper and told him that “I’ve got out at last” “And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (378) As you can see, she was not in the right state of mind.
In the beginning of the story as she tells it, she sounds normal and acts normal but tired and she writes about how she feels. As the story progresses, the woman goes in detail about what she sees in the wallpaper that no one can see except her. She describes what happens in the wallpaper with a woman inside of it, yet she keeps all this information to herself. The woman feels like there is something wrong with the house, she claims it is beautiful but there is something that bothers her with the house. The bedroom was a big room with lots of windows with bars on them and she hated the color and wallpaper in the room that was suppose to help her get better but only made her condition worse by being isolated in the room separated from the world, alone with her thoughts.