"You see he does not believe I am sick!"
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator's family doesn't believe that her condition is serious or if she even has a condition. I think that is also why they want to believe she is getting better. I, on the other hand, don't think she is getting better because it seems that she is having hallucinations and becoming obsessed with the wallpaper. There is a lady behind the wallpaper that she keeps speaking of and I think that is possibly her alter ego. This is because the lady she talks about is able to walk outside and that's what the narrator wants to do.
The narrator in the story, to me, is not legitimately crazy because her family has left her in the house for so long, most of the time, by herself. Anyone that was put in that position would not be in their right mind for very long. What Gilman is trying to portray in this story is that if someone were left alone for long enough, they would start to do crazy things or think crazy thoughts.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
You've got a lot of different and sometimes contradictory thoughts here! That's not necessarily a bad thing.... For instance, you say that you don't think the narrator is "legitimately crazy." But then you say that being locked up alone would drive anyone to "not be in their right mind for very long." So--is she crazy or isn't she? Does Gilman maybe not allow us to really know one way or the other?
ReplyDelete