I've fallen in love with Psychological horror stories. From Poe to Lovecraft, and now to Gilman? Based on what we've read so far in class, this came as a pleasant and refreshing surprise. It reminded me why American literature is to be studied. After reading pages and pages of "local color" diologue about living in American and obtaining the "American Dream", I'm already getting tired of it.
What makes The Yellow-Wallpaper stand out is it's discription. The way the narrator describes the yellow wallpaper is eerily creepy. Early in the story, the narrator says, "The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
This can also be seen as a metaphor for the narrator's own psyche, as it slowly transforms and decays into insanity. With each passing day, the wallpaper consumes her, and in the end, she eventually is the wallpaper.
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