The Yellow Wallpaper Sunlight And Moonlight Analysis

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In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator’s husband is very controlling of her when she has to put her journal away because he did not approve her writing in it and by their housekeeper who was always watching her when he was away. The whole story takes place at a confined home where she is going crazy by the way she is describing her house and the yellow wallpaper. In the 19th century, women were a much lower class than men and they had next to no rights. This story is representational of the isolation and repression that many women felt by their families and community.

The main character is suppressed, by the actions of John, her husband, in not letting her perform her motherly duties to her family. Traditionally, the man’s duty is …show more content…
Daylight is connected with reason and rationality while moonlight is irrational and not reasonable. Gilman’s observation of daylight and moonlight is closely related to her views on men and women in society. Daylight represented John, the husband, laughing at his wife for the way she is acting and how the sunlight made the pattern appear to laugh at her actions to describe this connection. In the sunlight everything is clear and seen, which is why the woman in the wallpaper never crept around in it, society was able to see her and a woman creeping around was not accepted by society. In the daylight the yellow wallpaper’s pattern did not move, in the narrator’s eyes, because she knew that it was not acceptable to see such things. In the moonlight, when everyone was sleeping and could not see, the pattern of the yellow wallpaper would “come to life.” In the moonlight it is dark and everything is hidden, nothing can be seen by society. The narrator sees the woman in the wallpaper shake the bars of it trying to get out and creeping around the garden at night, because the moonlight hides her. The narrator also sees strangled heads of other women that have tried to squeeze through the bars but did not succeed, representing all the other women in the world who have suffered as the narrator has and were not able to escape from the limits and roles of the …show more content…
The yellow wallpaper really let me visualize and symbolize her hallucinations with her by the strangled heads and people trapped within. Fiction let me tap into my imagination. For example, when the narrator was describing peculiar odor of the yellow wallpaper, I tried to analyze how it smelled with her. I was able to get lost in a fantasy world in a big, old mansion during the Gothic time period where she was describing the changing patterns of the wallpaper. Life through fiction can make us delve into our imaginations more and take us away from reality. Also, we can tap into our own curiosity and create our own fictitious experiences in our minds where we may experience a deeper understanding of our
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