Through out Yellow Wall Paper, the narrator seems like she is an average woman with mental instabilities of her time. As the story progresses it shows that the story is actually her getting over the death of her husband by solving the issue she has with the room she is mentally trapped in. The house and grounds are actually portraying the inside of her mind. The house is actually her mind and the grounds are the healthy vibrant portion of her psyche as she say’s “there is a DELICIOUS garden! I never saw such a garden- large and shady, full of box- bordered paths, and lined with long grape- covered arbors with seats under them” (Gilman, Charolotte. YELLOW WALL PAPER. PG 1). This describes a vibrant, lush environment which would be the healthy portion of her mind. She then goes on to describe the house by saying “the place has been empty for years. That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care- there is something strange about the house” (Gilman, Charolette YELLOW WALL PAPER.. PG 1). She seems to describe the house as a negative, which would be the negative section and memories in her brain. It was important to show that there is a healthy side to her psyche so that through the story it is clear that the issues she has in the house “her mind” progressively are solved and comes to except them. Once she gets into the house and is settled into her room she is confronted by the memory of her husband which is represented through the horrific yellow wall paper in her room and she realizes this is an issue she must solve on her own. At the beginning she
describes the room by saying “I never saw a worse paper in my life./ you fallow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide- Plunge off at a outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of conditions” (Gilman, Charlotte YELLOW WALL PAPER.. PG
