Revision Essay -2

"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck, and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.  Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are every­where.  There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.”(THE YELLOW WALL-PARER~649-650)

 

In this passage from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is beginning to see things again and again in the patterns of the "wallpaper”. Using the description of the pattern as “a broken neck” that lolls and “bulbous eyes”, the narrator gives an idea that the narrator is becoming the obsessed with the wallpaper by telling the images. It makes her worried. It also shows that the wallpaper disturbs the narrator and draws her into the paper, as if drawing her deeper into her mental illness. The narrator is beginning to see things in the paper.  Instead of just being an atrocious paper, she is starting to see things in the paper. Therefore, when her husband John tries to explain that there is no scary thing at home, she thinks about it again and again.  Moreover, she feels worried about “Ghost” or something which she always imagines at home.  All of these moments have happened   because of her depression and felling uncomfortable at new home.

             The words “two bulbous eyes”   give us the idea that the wallpaper has human characteristics. She explains in this story that “two bulbous eyes” stare at her. It is all about narrator’s isolation.  She stays at home alone, and she wants someone to share her feelings. Therefore, she looks for human touch, but she is not able to talk with anyone because her husband works in the hospital. Therefore, she looks around the room and finds human characteristic in the “Wallpaper”. However, it seems that the narrator has problems in adjusting at new place, and also she is feeling mental disorder. However, her husband does not believe that she is sick. She says that “You see he does not believe I am sick!” (THE YELLOW WALL-PARER -647) It proves that her husband John is also responsible for her illness because he does not help her to get rid of a mental health disorder.

              “Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are every­where.”  Wherever the narrator looks, she finds something at home. The narrator describes her psychological situation at new home. For example, she feels herself observed by the ‘eyes’ on the wallpaper.  Then she starts to treat ‘imaginative’ observations as though they are real.  She says that the ‘unblinking eyes’  ‘crawl’ ‘everywhere’. Perhaps her imagination is causing her to begin to lose control of her thoughts. It happens because of her isolation. Her loneliness makes her crazy, and she finds something at home that is not real. Moreover, she does not get any mental support from her husband. For example, she describes “I don't like our room a bit.  I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz  hang­ings!  but John would not hear of it.” (THE YELLOW WALL-PARER -648) Therefore, she becomes mentally depressed, and she finds something unreal because of her isolation.

It seems that the narrator always imagines something at home. It suggests that she may be mentally depressed. She always looks everywhere in the house and feels anxiety by imagining something in a wrong way.  She is mentally ill, and her husband never helps her. He believes that it is a woman’s illness and not an actual sickness. If it happens to anyone, we should think about treating the mentally ill.