Yellow Wallpaper Diary

Yellow Wallpaper My mother and father are unlike most parents these days. My father John is a physician and my mother Jane is his patient. Mother has been very depressed lately, for reason which I do not know. My father says that our new home will help her recover, but I don’t think it is helping. Mother stays in the “nursery” which has windows which are barred. She says the wallpaper drives her mad and that there is a woman within it. My father copes with her by telling her to rest, but she never really listens. My mother and father rarely acknowledge my presence. Mother is too focused on the wallpaper and father is too focused on helping mother. The house we’re staying at is quite elegant. The rooms are large and comfortable. There is a large garden my mother seems very fond of in the backyard. Perhaps if I were able to bring her vegetables from the garden she would give me more attention. Father isn’t very fond of me, although I am his first born son he sees me as a nuisance. I think mother wishes I was a little girl, but instead I am a pestilent little boy. Hopefully we are leaving this house soon, it is rather odd here. …show more content…
For the first couple of weeks she seemed to be improving, however each day she seems to lose herself in that yellow room. She no longer thinks of me, for I can not remember the last time she had even spoken my name. I went to visit father, he said that we are leaving this house soon. I think he is upset about mother's condition, considering she has worsened. I wandered around the house looking for new passageways, but alas all I could find was dust and more of the peculiar yellow wallpaper. The wallpaper truly is peculiar, the patterns that cover it are like a maze that never end. I can see how it has driven mother mad. Just the sight of it makes me cringe in understanding of my