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4 lip 2019 · The story ends with her husband banging on the door to be let in, fetching the key when she tells him it’s down by the front door mat, and bursting into the room – whereupon he faints, at the sight of his wife creeping around the room. That concludes a summary of the ‘plot’ of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.
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The Yellow Wallpaper is a captivating short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It explores themes of female oppression, mental health, and the power dynamics within a marriage. The story is often analyzed for its ambiguous ending, leaving readers with various interpretations.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's relationship with her husband, John, is marked by patriarchal dominance and lack of understanding. John, a physician, dismisses his wife's mental...
Subordinate to her husband in their marriage, her perspective constantly dismissed, the narrator eventually identifies herself with the woman trying to escape the domestic trappings that the yellow wallpaper symbolizes.
John faints at the end of the story because the narrator’s erratic and destructive behavior shocks him. He cannot believe that his wife, whom he presumed was improving in her condition, has fallen into such animalistic behavior.
When she finally hallucinates, believing that she perceives a woman trapped behind the bars of the hideous wallpaper, the wife feels that she must free this woman. She tears at the "bars" of...
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator’s delusions free her from her “practical” and “wise” husband, who literally confines his wife to a room within the paternal house (Gilman 327, 333).
