The Yellow Wallpaper -- Literary Analysis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

With a sarcastic, monstrous, and angry tone combined with high emotion and sentimentalism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper in order to help the oppressed females recover their voice, their rights, and their freedom. She skillfully leaded the reader’s interest from a little horrible opening; then, a curious feeling about Jane’s life immediately became anger because of the unexpected climax of the narrator’s own recognition in the yellow wallpaper. The author tried to show that female would stand up and do whatever they can, even if they lose something to escape the control of male dominance as the narrator did in the story. This story is successful at portraying its authorial purpose because of its setting, types of conflict, character development, and the language effects. A story will become unreliable and lose the reader’s interest unless its author knows how to draw an exquisite circumstance and arrange the information. The story has demonstrated the descriptive scenes, even it’s a small detail. The powerful descriptive information and the symbols in the story helped to make the success of the story. That process is called setting which is the idea of the broad, form picture of the story. In the beginning of the story, we can see the house where the narrator and her husband rent for their summer vacation. It is the main and only place that story takes place. It was a colonial mansion and it was filled up with romantic love and happiness. By taking a first a look at its beautiful outside form and appearance but then the narrator described, â€Å"It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for ther... ... outline of the story events is necessary for a short story. A short story is good, interesting, make sense or not depends on its setting, way to use language to express, the characters’ conflicts, images and emotion. This story is successful because it sends a significant message to the readers that it is necessary to respect female’s injustice. If the male dominance is out of female’s control, they will stand up for themselves and struggle back against male as what the narrator in the story did. The Yellow Wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman leaves me a profound impression about the lesson of female rights. As a female who is grown up in Asia where can see male dominant toward female clearly, I know that I cannot lose my self-position nor blur my personality to the man’s control. Female have their own rights because they are the same human being as male.