The narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is truly insane from the very beginning of the story; she just falls deeper and deeper into insanity as the story progresses. In the beginning of the story she tells of how her husband diagnoses her insanity, “a slight hysterical tendency,”(633). Later in the story she admits her own condition, “I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes…I think it is due to this nervous condition.”(634). John, her husband, makes her stay in bed and rest through the story; this contributes to her gradual slide into complete insanity. She begins to show signs of her schizophrenia. She sits in her room starring at the walls and begins to envision people stuck behind the wallpaper. She talks to them and plots to help release them. “The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”(640). “They get through, and the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes......
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