Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper
Analysis of “The Yellow Wallpaper” In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Gilman paints a picture of a woman mentally depressed. ... As the narrator examines the room she is sickened by the color of the wallpaper. ... ” She says, “The color is repellant, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by a slow turning sunlight. ... She becomes obsessed with the wallpaper. ... She stares at the wallpaper so long she sees a woman behind the paper. ... One of the final clues that show her insanity is reflected with a single question by the narrator, “I wonder if they all came out of that wallpaper as I did? ... In her mind the wallpaper has life. ... She thinks she has escaped the wallpaper and she begins to creep around the room.