Week 5 Question#4

Discussion of the critical entries that deals with "The Yellow Wallpaper", explaining how/why it informed your understanding of the interpretation of the story. Keep in mind that the contextual articles are largely historical (especially if you’re considering historicism as your methodology for your research paper).
As I read "The Yellow Wallaper" by Gilman, it came across in my realization the narrator's flaws to matters of the world such as depression and femininity. I interpret the story as the author is trying to represent the hardships of power between men and women. The narrator grumbles about her husband because he underestimates both her illness and her thoughts and concerns in general. In the story, the narrator becomes good at hiding her journal, and thus hiding her true thoughts from her husband as the few weeks of summer pass. As time goes by, the narrator accounts that her family leaving her more tired than ever. Near the end of the story, the wallpaper controlled the narrator's imagination and because of this, she became possessive and secretive. Finally, the narrator become hopelessly insane, convinced that there are many creeping women around and that she herself has come out of the wallpaper—that she herself is the trapped woman.
It is a bit crucial to understand the nature of the narrator's suffering. However, the main interpretation of the story is that the narrator is faced with relationships, objects, and situations that seem innocent and natural but that are actually quite bizarre and even oppressive.