The story “ The Yellow Wallpaper” is written in first person, and uses some dramatic irony throughout the story.

The main character is a women who is mentally ill, her husband who is a physician moves her to a colonial mansion so that she can recover from her illness. She is given a room upstairs with yellow wallpaper, barred windows, and rings in the walls. She believes that the bars are because it use to be a nursery, and the bars were for the children's protection. This is irony because the narrator believes that the windows were barred for little children, but we as the reader know that the room is for an insane person. Another example of irony is the contradictions of the narrator's own statements. She states, "I am glad my case is not serious!”, followed by "But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing" and "John does not know how much I really suffer." She agrees with her first statement that her "case is not serious" by saying "Of course it is only nervousness". Another example of irony is that the husband believes that having his wife in the room is making her better, he states “You know this place is doing you good”, but in reality it causes her condition to worsen, and to pretty much have a mental break down.

I think that the use of irony is the further depict the real insanity of the woman. In all the places irony is used in context it seems to make her mentally unstable.