The Yellow Wallpaper 5

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more life to the wallpaper each time she resumes writing.
At the beginning of her story, the woman reveals much about herself and the life she lives. She has a husband, John, who is a physician and seems to be more of a father than a companion. It is also learned that she suffers from a problem with depression, deemed a “slight hysterical tendency” by her husband and accepted by her (425). Her secret opinion that the reason why she is sick and cannot get better is because her husband does not believe she is sick gives the reader the first insight into the woman’s true self. Almost ashamed to even think that it is her husband’s inability to accept her illness, the woman turns the problem back on herself. She proceeds to say that she gets “unreasonably angry” with her husband and is “basely ungrateful”, and that she must take pains to control her emotions. Leaving much to be questioned in the reader’s mind as to the health of her ...

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good with the baby. Such a dear baby!” (426). There are no other implications of having a child before this, nor are there any in the rest of this entry, striking the reader as odd that a mother would not have any concern for or interaction with her own child. It is also apparent that her focus has shifted primarily to the wallpaper, and her feelings about it have intensified. She calls the paper “atrocious” and “horrid”, and begins giving it a life of its own. Her comment, “This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!” strikes the reader with how preoccupied she must be. She also gives it, “a broken neck and two ...

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