The narrator of this story is a young mother who experiences depression and anxiety. Despite being diagnosed with neurasthenia (Gilman 2), she does not perceive her life to be at risk. Her family confines her to a nursery in their summer home and forbids her from pursuing any artistic endeavors. Throughout her existence, she longs for a contented marriage and the ability to bring happiness to her husband's life. Regrettably, she grapples with finding harmony between fulfilling her spouse's requirements and satisfying her own creative instincts.
The narrator finds solace from her lonely nature and inactivity by secretly working on her diary, as well as attempting to follow the physician's directives. Throughout these experiences, she takes comfort in the yellow wallpaper that covers the nursery wall in thei
...r home.
The narrator's visualization of female figures trapped behind the yellow wallpaper reveals their shared experience of oppression and imprisonment. As she becomes fixated on the wallpaper's patterns, her longing to be the perfect wife and mother is reignited. She becomes consumed with thoughts of freeing the figure in the yellow wallpaper.
The author employs an incoherent stream of consciousness to depict the narrator's deteriorating sanity over time. Despite this, the narrator strives to liberate herself and gain self-understanding.
The story concludes with the narrator losing touch with reality, rejecting her roles as a wife and mother, and succumbing to madness. However, she ultimately focuses on freeing the woman in the yellow wallpaper, leading to her own liberation.
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