The yellow wallpaper

Prompt : What do you find most striking about the Narrator’s description of the wallpaper? Isolate and discuss one key element of her description.

In the Charlotte’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” What I, find most striking about the narrator’s description of the wallpaper is how she describes it so violently. On page 3 on the last paragraph she says, “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.” She uses specific wordings and strange fantasies. The wordings she uses "bulbous" meaning fat and round. "lolls" which means hanging loosely. It's pretty graphic. There are other parts of the story where she uses very descriptive words but violent ones also. On page 7 she describes the pattern of the wallpaper on how “ it is torturing.”

It seems as if she is obsessed with writing about the paper, she talks about how it bothers her when it is daylight and at night with any kind of light she sees bars. Not only bars does she see but “ The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.” John’s wife is seeing things no one else is seeing. John’s wife has become insane she is saying things such as “To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try.” No sane person would be thinking that.