Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a Road to Women’s Discourse

Abstract

This paper analysis the true nature of women’s lives through the eyes of an unreliable, insane narrator. The story is an amalgamation of oppression and freedom, fiction and non-fiction, men and women. Gilman’s story is about a journey to freedom from the hold of patriarchy. “The Yellow Wallpaper” raises protests against the male chauvinism that drags women down and acts as a chance to rediscover broken pieces of women and mend them mentally and physically. The story revolves around a yellow wallpaper that the narrator wishes to escape from to gain autonomy for herself. Gilman’s short story has become a tale for feminist readers and scholars to venture into and make such stories available to the masses and students in particular so that they can contribute to the making of a better community that understands the need for Gender studies in our curriculum.