1.
Plot
·
The author uses closed plot due to the fact that
this story has an ending.
·
Exposition, the narator as the main character
introduces narrates the readers about the place, time, the condition in the
story itself, John’s occupation, and the character of John.
·
Conflict has happened in protagonist character. Actually
she wants to againts her husband. Her husband is too limited her to socialize
or just go out from home so that the protagonist has gotten dreadfully
depressing.
·
Rising actions happanes when the major character
bagins to create some imagination in her mind about what actually happened with
the yellow wallpaper. It makes her afraid totally but she is too curious about
what actually she has seen. In short, the shadow in the wallpaper is herself.
·
Climax. The major character is creeping in the
floor until her husband finds her. At least, she tells to her husband what she
is doing and the reason inside.
·
Falling actions. It shows the ending of the story
when the narrator decide to go out from her husband’s role by creeping across
her husband as the symbol of feminism.
2.
Setting
- · Physical setting
a.
This story takes a place in a haunted house
where has a colonial mansion and a hereditary estate.
b.
The place is quite alone standing well back from
the road, quite three miles from the village. There are hedges and walls and
gates that locked and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and
people.
c.
There is a delicious garden. It is large and
shady, full of box-bordered path, and line with long grape-covered arbors with
seats under them.
d.
There were broken greenhouses. Those looked
unused in many years.
e.
In a big house, there is an airy room for the
main character. The room whose whole floor nearly with windows that look all
ways, and air and sunshine galore.
f.
It is nursery first and then playroom and
gymnasium.
g.
The paint and paper are stripped off. The color
is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by
the slow-turning sunlight.
h.
The moon shines in all night when there is a
moon.
i.
The story is taken for 3 moths.
j.
The weather is warm.
- · Social setting
a.
The situation in the house is quite. The main
character feels really lonely. Therefore, she decides to write about what she
fells.
b.
John, as the husband’s main character is a
physician. He always works all day except in night.
c.
The environment of the story tells the
loneliness. Although there are 3 people there, but they are seldom to keep in
touch each other. Jenny and Mary as the housekeeper, they usually do their own
business or work so that they do not give more effects of this story.
d.
Cousin Henry and Julia do not appear in this
story. John just spelled their name because at the past time he wanted to take
his wife in to relative’s house.
e.
There are two housekeepers. They are Mary and Jennie.
3.
Character
- · Simple (flat) character
a.
John : He is
practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of
superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen
and put down in figures. He is very careful and loving his wife. But he is too
protective. He forbids his wife to go somewhere even it is just visiting their
relatives.
b.
Mary : She is a
baby-sitter. Actually she does not give more effects for the story.
c.
Jennie (John’s sister) : She is a perfect and an enthusiastic housekeeper, and
hopes for no better profession. She is loyal, but she sometimes betrayed
herself. Jennie has an inexplicable look.
- · Complex (round) character
a.
Protagonist :
(The woman) A main character is sensitive, imaginative, and patient woman. She
really suffers with her condition until she has dreadfully depressing.
- · There are 3 characters. They were not appeared or included in the story butt they were just mentioned in the story. They are Cousin Henry, Julia, and the wife’s brother.
4.
Characterization
This story uses mixing method.
When the writer wrote this short story, he used both discursive (direct) and dramatic (indirect) method as in;
When the writer wrote this short story, he used both discursive (direct) and dramatic (indirect) method as in;
a.
the narrator (dramatic)
b.
John (discursive).
5.
Conflict
The main character has some conflicts. Firstly, she has
internal conflict with herself. He has dreadfully depressing. She makes some
imaginative story or moments which are happened in the wallpaper. Thus, she gets more trouble nervous when she
looks at the wallpaper due to the appeared shadows inside. Secondly, the major
character also has social conflict. Her life is isolated with her surrounding.
It is caused by the dictator regulation by her husband. Her husband used to
treat his wife is like a bird in the cage. Consequently, the major character
felt extremely lonely and cold. She does not get any other attention from other
people. Moreover, she actually wants to be like other women that can socialize
with the environment where he can share anything and just give motivation.
6.
Symbol
This story uses a symbol which is named The Yellow
Wallpaper. This symbolizes the life of the main character herself. It is proven
by the characteristics of the wallpaper in which enclosed in these following
proof:
a. This wallpaper has a kind of sub pattern in a
different shade and a particularly irritating one for we can only see it in
certain light and not clearly then. It means that the aura of the major
character just can be seen in a certain time.
b. There is a recurrent spot where the pattern
lolls like broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.
c. The wallpaper has the bloated curves and
flourishes—a kind of “debased Romanesque” with delirium tremens—go waddling up
and down in isolated columns of fatuity. It is really ancient.
d.
Behind that outside pattern, the dim shapes get
clearer every day. It means that there is a woman behind the wallpaper who is
actually the main character herself.
e. The color is hideous enough, and unreliable
enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.
f. The outside pattern is a florid arabesque,
reminding one of a fungus. She stands alone in loneliness.
g. There are always new shoots on the fungus, and
new shades of yellow all over it. Yellows symbolizes of a woman.
h. It smells yellow. It shows the fragrant of the
main character which is pretended by either her illogical thinking or
imaginative shadow.
i. The woman sees someone creeps behind the
wallpaper. She is herself actually. She can be aware about it. It is proven
with her own saying :
“It is the same
woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by day
light.”
“I do not blame
her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping by day light!”
“I always lock the
door when I creep by day light. I can not do it at night, for I know John would
suspect something at once.”
7.
Point of View
This story
uses first person point of view
The wife is as
the first person protagonist (major/main character). She narrates her own story
in this point of view.
8.
Theme
The theme for this story is
Feminism. Feminism is the important thing in our life. The tragedy which is
happened in the main character’s life showed that she can not do anything she
wants. Her husband limited her for doing something else except just by staying
in the house. Even he does not allow his wife to see their relatives. This case
cause his wife loses her freedom. She can neither socialize in her environment
nor do some activities that she likes to. This story was supposed to the
nations or state that they must change the regulation or law of the country for
limitation of the woman (especially, wife) for doing something that it will not
give more disadvantages. Due to the fact that actually the woman also has a
right to get freedom, we should be wiser to make appropriate decision about
this fact. This story was related to the policy which was happened in 1899 that
the woman is isolated by their husband for getting their freedom until they got
dreadfully depressing. So, the author intentionally wrote this story by
expectation of the changes law for upper the feminism in that era was.
