The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Actually I really did not understand this story during the class. The writing style and some vocabularies are really hard for me to catch up. However, after finishing reading the entire story and searching some other source on the internet, I finally comprehend the major idea of this story.
The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important work of American feminist literature. It is a collection of first person journal entries written by a sick woman whose physician husband confined her in the upstairs room to cure her. The husband believes he did everything right, and never listens to the suggestion from his wife. The woman is treated as a child in the room and she could not do anything she wants. Thus, she even gets worse and worse, and starts to pay attention to the yellow wallpaper. Because of all the different factors, she finally gets crazy.
I think the yellow wallpaper represents the oppression on the women by the men in the male chauvinism society. As we know, in the 19th century, the position between women and men in the society is hugely different. The men usually earned money and supported the family, while the women could only do the housework or just be a mother. The woman in the story becomes crazy as she does not want to follow the rules.
Although I got the main idea of this story, I still have some questions.
1. I do not understand why the woman sees some women in the yellow wallpaper? Does it mean the women were oppressed in the society at that time?
2. I do not understand the ending. What will happen after the woman pulled off the poster?
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