The setting is extremely powerful when portraying a story. The description and the details are important for a reader who is not able to physically perceive the set and everything that is included. For that reason, when the author describes the setting he/she tries to give as much detail to convey the readers the atmosphere. Once the atmosphere is detected, at that time the reader can begin to uncover the mood and feelings. The Yellow Wallpaper is a wonderful example of where the author provides great detail in the setting. Accordingly, when reading the description of the places the narrator was taking me too, I have acquired a sense of the place and was able to determine my mood. Therefore, throughout my paper I will convey how the author
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The narrator’s obsession with the yellow wallpaper lead her to analyze and observe the aspects of the wallpaper. She states “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (Perkins Gilman 153). She goes into a further description saying the wallpaper is “dull, constantly irritat(ing), and provokes study(ing)” (Perkins Gilman 153). The color yellow is an important element because after all it is the color of the wallpaper. When I imagine the color yellow I see a radiant warm sun, also as a joyful color. However, these images of what I believed did not appear in my mind as I read, instead, as I was reading I was having a negative connotation of the color yellow. It was no longer cheerful, but miserable. As the narrator analyzed the wallpaper she discovered the disturbance that the wallpaper holds. The narrator describes the patterns as lines that curve for a little, crash and commit suicide (Perkins Gilman 153). The reference to suicide is extremely impactful and I felt that the narrator was replicating her feelings and thoughts toward the wallpaper. The MacPike’s article confirmed my thoughts by stating “the furnishing of the narrator’s room become a microcosm of the world that squeezes her into the little cell of her own mind, and the wallpaper represents the state of that mind” (MacPike 286). The narrator is replicating her own situation onto the wallpaper and by her focus on this item she finds it not only as a distraction but also something she is eager to change. The narrator has the desire to improve, but she does not know how. By focusing on the wallpaper she sees the problem right in front of her and she has the capability to find a fix for the
The narrator’s obsession with the yellow wallpaper lead her to analyze and observe the aspects of the wallpaper. She states “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (Perkins Gilman 153). She goes into a further description saying the wallpaper is “dull, constantly irritat(ing), and provokes study(ing)” (Perkins Gilman 153). The color yellow is an important element because after all it is the color of the wallpaper. When I imagine the color yellow I see a radiant warm sun, also as a joyful color. However, these images of what I believed did not appear in my mind as I read, instead, as I was reading I was having a negative connotation of the color yellow. It was no longer cheerful, but miserable. As the narrator analyzed the wallpaper she discovered the disturbance that the wallpaper holds. The narrator describes the patterns as lines that curve for a little, crash and commit suicide (Perkins Gilman 153). The reference to suicide is extremely impactful and I felt that the narrator was replicating her feelings and thoughts toward the wallpaper. The MacPike’s article confirmed my thoughts by stating “the furnishing of the narrator’s room become a microcosm of the world that squeezes her into the little cell of her own mind, and the wallpaper represents the state of that mind” (MacPike 286). The narrator is replicating her own situation onto the wallpaper and by her focus on this item she finds it not only as a distraction but also something she is eager to change. The narrator has the desire to improve, but she does not know how. By focusing on the wallpaper she sees the problem right in front of her and she has the capability to find a fix for the