A Comparison Of The Yellow Wallpaper And The Yellow Wallpaper

One similarity between the two works is the that we are limited on where we get our information. Gilman’s short story â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper,† we see everything through the eyes of the narrator. The entire story is told from her secret diary when she has the time to write as shown in the line, â€Å"I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal-having to be so sly about it† (Gilman 527). Due to this, we can only make assumptions based on the information we get from her. She tells us she is in â€Å"A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate† (Gilman 526) and that she stays in â€Å"a big, airy room†¦It was a nursery first and then a playroom and gymnasium† (Gilman 527). However, once we reach the end of the story, with the†¦show more content†¦However there appears to be an element of truth to her fantasies. In the end the narration returns to an outside perspective where Dr. Gorski reveals â€Å"In jus t one week here, she stabbed an orderly, started a fire and helped another patient to escape† (Snyder). These coincide with actions taken while within her fantasies which leads us to ask what was really going on. In both Gilman’s story and Snyder’s film we are forced to reevaluate what we have been told and lead to believe and discern for ourselves what was truly fact and what may have only been delusions of someone’s mind. The vivid descriptions in â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† help to bring the reader along in the narrators decent into a kind of psychosis. It starts mildly, with her describing the color of wallpaper as â€Å"repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow† (Gilman 528). As more time passes she begins to see more things in the paper such as â€Å"a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes start at you,† and for it have â€Å"so much expression in an inanimate thing† (Gilman 592). As the pattern and descriptions get more twisted, we get visual clues of the madness that is slowly consuming the narrator. The color of the paper even begins to become a physical thing she can smell descried as, â€Å"creep[ing] all over the house...sulking...hiding...lying in wait for me†¦It gets into my hair† (Gilman 534). In the end we get a graphic visual representation of her full psychosisShow MoreRelatedComparison of T hemes in The Yellow Wallpaper and the Metamorphosis745 Words   |  3 PagesComparison of Themes in The Yellow Wallpaper and the Metamorphosis Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper and Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis contain many similarities. 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