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A 6 page essay that discusses the short story classic. The writer argues that Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" can be understood as offering a multifaceted reflection of Victorian patriarchal, imperialist sensibilities as a whole. The narrative deals with the journal entries of an unnamed female protagonist, a wife and mother who descends slowly into seeming insanity. However, the implied characterization of her husband/physician John suggests a poststructuralist interpretation that pictures the narrator in the position of colonial populations who were dominated by Western Victorian men, such as John. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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deals with the journal entries of an unnamed female protagonist, a wife and mother who descends slowly into seeming insanity. However, the implied characterization of her husband/physician John suggests a
poststructuralist interpretation that pictures the narrator in the position of colonial populations who were dominated by Western Victorian men, such as John. This interpretation differs somewhat from those that
have been offered repeatedly in scholarly criticism, which looks primarily at a feminist reading of the culture and restrictions on women that were prominent during the Victorian era. However, the
fact that various interpretations can be imposed on Gilmans narrative is illustrated by the fact that the story was originally interpreted as a "particular type of gothic tale, a haunted
house fiction" (Roth 145). It was perceived as being similar in orientation to tales by Poe or to Henry Jamess "The Turn of the Screw" (Roth 145). As this suggests,
"The Yellow Wallpaper" can be seen as belonging to the genre of the late nineteenth century captivity narrative and, in this case, as it was written by a woman, projects
the "inverse and unconscious of American imperial fiction" (Roth 145). Gilmans narrator seems "both aware and unaware of the domestic nightmare in which she is ensnared" (Hume 6). The
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls for the summer," which she believes to be a
"haunted house" (Gilman 154). The narrator indicates that John, her husband and her physician, has laughed at this suggestion (Gilman 154). As this indicates, the narrator immediately signals that her
observations, her thoughts, are never received as those of an equal adult, but are routinely discounted and belittled. Gilman also immediately establishes the narrators subjective place in society. Her
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