to our imagination to figure out what she looks like, but we do know she is a new mother, so I believe she is
in her late twenties to early thirties. In her first journal entry, we find out she has some sort of illness, and
later on one can figure out that she has a mental disorder. She writes things down that a normal person
would in her first entry, but she progressively gets crazier. She gives clues that she has always been a bit far
out there. She says that when she was a child, walls and furniture would entertain and scare her. This gives
clues to her imagining the things she sees in the wallpaper.
The focus of her journaling is the yellow wallpaper. At first she hates it and wants to switch rooms,
but then she gradually in fascinated by it and wants to stay until she figures it out. She spends hours and
When she talks about the odor of the paper, I think that is a clear clue of her insanity. She is the
tells us that she thinks the room was once a nursery. But I think it was a room for an insane person like
wallpaper also. She is very delusional
Some common words found in the essay are: Yellow Wallpaper, Jennie John, yellow wallpaper, insane person, Approximate Word count = 673 Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)