The Yellow Wallpaper Reaction

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The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that has two sides because in the story the narrator gets crazy. Many people say that she got crazy because she was already crazy, but no there is actually evidence that what got her more crazy was her husband. Throughout the story John rents a creepy house for him and his wife; John wants to help his wife with her mental issues, but instead he puts her in a room that makes her go crazy, as John knows his wife’s mental issue he treats her like a child, and John doesn 't let the narrator do anything not even write her journals, he puts her in a room with a Yellow Wallpaper that makes her see things. Immediately, in the beginning of the story the narrator says that John has rented a house for them special for her …show more content…

Ultimately, another way to prove that John was responsible of what happen to the narrator was when he didn 't let her do anything not even write her journals. He would have her in a room with a yellow wallpaper doing nothing. Like she had nothing to do she decided to figure out the pattern that there was in the yellow wallpaper. As she was trying to figure it out she saw many things that were coming from the yellow wallpaper and those things were what made her become crazy. John makes decisions for the narrator and puts her in a room “No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long. There comes John, and I must put this away—he hates to have me write a word. We have been here two weeks, and I haven’t felt like writing before, since that first day”(pg.2 line 72-74). In the story the narrator never really has control of her decisions. Throughout the story the narrator starts to see things in the yellow wallpaper and John doesn 't do anything. For example instead of separating her from seeing the yellow wallpaper so she won 't be affected he just let her and saw how she was becoming crazy. The narrator is seeing things like “There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seems to notice but myself, and that is that it changes as the light changes”(pg.8 line 277-278). Knowing the condition of the narrator why would John not let her do anything. Taking away everything from here was the worst option. The …show more content…

In conclusion, John is the one to blame for the condition of the narrator. He first rents a house for both of them and then he isolates her and doesn 't let her do anything. Then John starts to treat her like a child making her think she 's a child. Lastly he puts her in a room by herself with a yellow wallpaper that has a pattern. Since she didn 't have anything to do she decides to figure out the pattern and throughout the story the wallpaper makes her go crazy. John was a terrible husband that didn 't know how to take care of her wife. He saw how she was becoming crazier every single day and he

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