Charlotte Perkins Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman concentrated “The Yellow Wallpaper,” with the psychological, economic, and legal equality of women during the second wave of feminism. The ancestral hall’s barred windows and hypnotic wallpaper slowly drives the narrator crazy. ... The narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” was in emotional upheaval as she was suffering with her divergent feelings toward her husband. ... Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses both imagery and diction to help describe the ancestral hall. The narrator suggests that the wallpaper is a “dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in other” (320).