Departure

Riiiiiiiiip!!!!!! Lunatic and psychotic, the woman in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” furiously tears down that peculiar wall. The rupturing of the yellow wall-paper is a symbolic departure toward freedom from a constricted world she lives in. She is trapped in a society where a wife is required to act proper and obedient to her husband, as if she was a dog on a leash to the owner. Gilman wrote in a diary-form that centers the entire plot on the woman’s emotions, so her rapid psychological changes are evident. Her frustration and irritation build to a point where she becomes so crazy that she deliriously sees mysterious women behind the yellow wall-paper. This creeping woman is her hidden and constricted identity that breaks free as her facade of a subservient and helpless wife shatters.

Because she has no voice in her marriage with John, she is forced to stay at a house where the yellow wall-paper traumatizes her. John decides to rent a colonial mansion for three month for ...