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A major theme in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is that

solitary confinement and exclusion from the public results in insanity. The use of

imagery and setting helps illustrate this theme throughout the story.

The unnamed protagonist in this story suffers from a nervous disorder which is

enhanced by her feeling of being trapped within a room. The setting of the vast colonial

mansion and particularly the nursery room with barred windows provides an image of

loneliness and seclusion experienced by the protagonist. Another significant setting is

the mansion connected by a "shaded lane" (66) to the beautiful bay and private wharf. It

is possible that in her mind, she sees a path which leads to the cu

A pivotal moment in the story is when the woman protagonist is concerned only

with the yellow wallpaper in her journal. In lieu of her obsession with the wallpaper, she

In the end or in her last day at the mansion, the isolation intensifies her illness to

becomes engaged in the actions of the women she sees in the wallpaper which, of course,

realizes. The imagery of this situation is described when "the pattern strangles [the

women] off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!" (72).

sin" (64). Her days and nights are so uneventful that she finds relief in writing a journal

Approximate Word count = 511
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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