From the point of view of presentation the text is 1st person
narrative. As the
main character’s fictional journal, the story focuses exclusively on her own
thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Everything that we learn or see in the
story is filtered through the narrator’s shifting consciousness, and since the
narrator goes insane over the course of the story, her perception of reality is
often completely at odds with that of the other characters.
The types of speech employed by
the author of the analyzed extract are mixture of narration, description,
meditation and dialogue.
I believe that the plot grows
out of a conflict that is an external struggle between the main character and
her husband, the circumstances she lives in, over the nature and treatment
of her illness leads to a conflict within the narrator’s mind between her
growing understanding of her own powerlessness and her desire to repress this
awareness.
The plot of the story runs as
follows:
Exposition (we get to know about the main characters
and the mansion they rent for summer);
The development of the plot (the author shows us her ‘gray days’ in
the mansion and we get to know about protagonist’s postpartum depression and whose
illness gives her insight into her (and other women’s) situation in society and
in marriage). Here we may speak also about rising action (The narrator decides
to keep a secret journal, in which she describes her forced passivity and
expresses her dislike for her bedroom wallpaper, a dislike that gradually
intensifies into obsession);
The climax (The narrator completely
identifies herself with the woman imprisoned in the wallpaper). Here takes
place falling action (The narrator, now completely identified with the woman in
the wallpaper, spends her time crawling on all fours around the room);
The denouement (Her husband discovers her and
collapses in shock, and she keeps crawling, right over his fallen body).
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