First person narrative point of view on "The Yellow Wallpaper"
The first person narrative point of view provides me a sense of the narrator’s thoughts and feeling. Comparing to the third person point of view, the first person point of view was easier to understand from the main character’s thoughts. I could feel her pain from the fact that her husband ignored her illness and her thoughts. However, because this was a first person point of view, there were some disadvantages for me to understand the story. The narrator kept on complaining how her husband careless about her, but the fact was that he took her to that rented house just to treat her illness. He ignored her thoughts to make she thinks harder for herself. Therefore, the first person point of view lacked of fairness in describing other characters’ action.
Yes, that seems to be the point of this decision to write "Yellow Wallpaper" in first person. The unreliable character depicts the insanity this woman is experiencing very clearly to the reader. The husband does seem to not care, and I can see where you would see that she is over reacting. Her husband does care about her, I think she knows that; however, he is clueless. He has no clue of how to actually treat someone that is going insane. This reflects his abilities as a physician if he cannot even take care of his own wife. It is really sad, actually, but do you think that nowadays people would know how to deal with a person going insane any better?
ReplyDeleteTo be completely honest, I did not even need to read what you wrote to know what you were trying to get across. Your picture told me everything that I needed to know. You wanted to let us know how you saw what she saw and that the point of view of one person could be amazing. In the world around her, we could not possible know what is actually going on.
ReplyDeleteI think that, from the descriptions she gave, we could have a rather good idea of what was going on around her. We could not see the full picture, but part of reading is filling in the gaps.
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