The Yellow Wallpaper Physcological Analysis
Surroundings Causing Psychological Conditions
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the protagonist, Jane, is in a constant struggle with her own state of mind, always wondering if she is just nervous but knowing there is much more to it her than nervousness. When she is brought to the rental home by her husband her own psychological problems just proceed to get worse. In the story, the setting is so important that it’s almost a character. It leads Jane to her demise, creating shock and hysteria.
Jane’s room is physically yellow with dull print. She stares at the pattern on the wallpaper and watches as the lines suddenly commit suicide. Inconspicuously not only is the wallpaper the problem, but the constant state of control everyone she in, medicine dispensed at a certain time, visits from her husband, even the room she is in. The gates over the windows and by the doors only make her feel more like a prisoner. Any person in their right mind would feel a state of seclusion and lose self-awareness. The constant supervision and attention that a child would get can confuse a woman. It makes her more distressed because she has a baby and yet people are making her feel as if she doesn’t have the capability to take care of it or herself. Because she has no authority over herself at all, her psychological state deteriorates as her condition becomes that of a split personality.
