Annotated Bibliography: Exploring Themes in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

This annotated bibliography provides an overview of critical analyses and scholarly sources related to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. The bibliography includes two key sources: one from the BMJ: British Medical Journal, offering a review of the story's context and themes, including the protagonist's mental state and the influence of medical practices of the time; and another from PMLA, which explores the shifting critical implications of the story, particularly within feminist literary criticism. The annotations delve into the story's themes of confinement, mental health, and the societal constraints placed on women, highlighting the story's enduring relevance and its evolution in critical interpretation. The sources provide insights into the narrative's structure, the symbolism of the wallpaper, and the protagonist's descent into madness, offering a comprehensive understanding of the story's impact.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The yellow Wallpaper
Source: "But One Expects That": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and the
Shifting Light of Scholarship Author(s): Julie Bates Dock, Daphne Ryan Allen, Jennifer Palais
and Kristen Tracy Source: PMLA, Vol. 111, No. 1, Special Topic: The Status of Evidence (Jan.,
1996), pp. 52-65 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/463133 Accessed: 17-04-2019 05:03 UTC
The documented account of "The Yellow Wallpaper" during 1973 exemplifies fluctuating critical
implications in the school of the arts. “The Feminist Press” transported the part with
comprehensive exchange than ever in the former years even though there was reprinting of
preliminary publication at1892. Undeniably, it has developed into the Feminist Press's
"unprecedented best-seller," with beyond 200,000 reproductions
The story is easy to get to because there endured the narrator's reserved journal and the
interruptions of the section established records while Gilman utilizes these breaks to describe the
speaker's situations over and above her cerebral state. The storyteller needs to come away with
writing in her undisclosed journal every time she perceives her partner or sister-in-law to get
closer. She hints their method by proclaiming, for instance, "There comes John, and I must put
this away,-he hates to have me write a word" or "There's sister on the step” These turbulences
set her at the compassion of the people who desire to overpower her writing. Far along, the gaps
exemplify mood variations. Earlier to a single break the storyteller is excited and defensive as
she doubts that Jennie is concerned with the wallpaper: "But I know she was studying that
pattern, and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself!" she remains repulsed over
the paper: "If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad" The
discontinuities that track such declarations turn as an expressive indicator as the storyteller
submerges her in examination of wallpaper. While Hedges reestablished "The Yellow
Wallpaper" just before the fictitious world, she commented that "in its period ... the story was
delivered fundamentally as Poe’s legend of alarming fear" Gilman completed the similarity with
Poe besides the frightening potentials of the fiction did attract the courtesy of its initial readers.
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(Critical analysis by: Omar Mukhtar)
Source: BMJ: British Medical Journal, Vol. 342, No. 7791 (29 January 2011), p. 285 Published
by: BMJ Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25781721 Accessed: 17-04-2019 04:20 UTC
The yellow Wallpaper is set in context of the upbringing of new child. The leading character
develops depression and weariness soon after the delivery of the girl-child. John, (her husband) a
medical practitioner, governs that his spouse has "neurasthenia" as well as, influenced by the
effort of “Silas Weir Mitchell”, a top neurologist (belonging to late 19th century), recommends
"rest cure". she targeted at the summertime to a noble mansion---and the storyteller discovers her
to a room at upstairs which earlier functioned as a playgroup space. She denied the right to use
the “rest of the home”. She curtailed to hide her journal records, what activates as a "momentary
nervous depression". It speedily turned into a florid obsession, through the wallpaper helping as
a central theme. Relatively gentle adjectives as the "yellow" incense, its "breakneck, scrawling
form," its "missing patches very soon” developed further threatening facts, with the ultimate
appearance of a "shadowy figure from the wallpaper: a woman slinking on all fours, demanding
to escape the bars from the shadows." The story draws to the end with the closure of vacation,
whereby her partner representatively unlocks the door, merely to catch his wife rotating the
room, caressing the wallpaper.
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