The protagonist in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a woman named
Jane. Many physicians, such as her
husband and brother, claimed that Jane has a temporary nervous depression. So she was placed in the attic of a house,
that had a horrid yellow wallpaper decorating its walls. But some people may consider this room more
of a sanitarium, then just a normal room she stayed in. When she describes the room it sometimes has
jail like characteristics, “He said that after the wall-paper was changed it
would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows…”(pg. 3). But nonetheless she stayed in this room all
day long, where some would say her nervous depression only got worse as she
examined the walls all day, especially the yellow wallpaper. After some time she even said she saw a woman
or many women behind the wallpaper, “The front pattern does move--and no
wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes
I think there are a great many omen behind, and sometimes only one, and she
crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over” (pg. 9). This can be seen as a hallucination caused from
her “insane” state, but what if the women she sees are the women of
society. Locked behind the wallpaper,
they have no freedom. What if she’s
becoming locked in the wallpaper just like all the other women?
http://mr-gadget.hubpages.com/hub/WOMEN-RIGHTS-FROM-1800-TO-PRESENT- this site showed me how women were viewed by society throughout different yearshttp://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm- this site also showed me women's history
protagonist: the main character in a short story who has a lot do with the conflict
Amber, your cites very good for your explaining of Jane. However, when you cite you don't need the "pg.", you only need the page number in parenthesis. I agree that Jane's room has jail characteristics. Overall, your entry was really good!
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