The main point of view is of the narrator who is a married woman whom has a child, she is spending a summer in large house in the country. Her husband who is also her attending physician and her brother, prescribe her a quiet retreat treatment for her depression. The narrator becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room she is made to stay in. This obsession lends a brief glimpse of what drove her over the brink.
The main character is “round” characterization where we see in the previous paragraph. It takes more than one sentence to sum up her character. She is an individual who seemingly has “gone off her rocker,” but through the reading of the story we see she is in fact a direct representation of herself throughout most of the story.
The main character and her husband are “ordinary” in respects to her own individual classification of the term, “ordinary”. When thinking that they can afford a nanny to care for their child, it does give the reader the impression that the couple are fairly well to do. The narrator does say they were “lucky” to be able to rent the colonial mansion. The narrator seems to be unaware of the full extent of her illness. In the beginning of the story she is aware of he
Most of our initial responses and opinions formed matched the first student essay. The second student essay gave us the enlightenment to the postpartum depression possibilities and to how women were “held back” back in the time the story was written. Her situation could have been gotten under control with pure psychiatric help, rather than her husband allowing for the gradual regression into a much more deepening madness/craziness. There is a great possibility that just as we are now trying to interpret the meaning of this story, the two students show they were unaware to fully knowing if they could “trust” the writings of a mad woman. For all we know this could be a “crazy” woman, who can still comprehensively write, and this house for “rest” could in fact be considered an asylum. The nice room she wanted could be the greeting room. Do we trust that there is in fact a baby? Maybe what drove her insane is that she could not conceive? The husband could be visiting everyday, not just leaving everyday from her perspective. The nanny could be the nurse that cares for her. She herself could be the “baby” the nanny takes care of!
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