Who is the woman behind the yellow-wallpaper trying to get out? Why does she creep around at night? there is also mention of creeping at the end of the story. She left her first husband and moved to California where she started writing. The writer herself had a passion for writing. She is forced to write secretly in her journal. He expects her to perform her wifely duties and not venture into the public domain. When the narrator tells her husband that she wants to write, her husband forbids her from writing. While the narrator of the story represents the women in the society. John in the novel represents the males in the society. However, the women would after a while struggle and come out of these man-made cages. Gilman saw the women at this time as trapped in cages by the societal norms and the men. They were even considered as prostitutes.
The women at this time who ventured into the public domain were looked down on. In the society, the men were involved in the public sphere, as leaders, businessmen and in the entertainment industry. The women in the nineteenth century were expected to be wives and mothers. How does she seem to view the role of women of this period? Gilman seems to critique the role and place of women in western cultures at the turn of the century (1900). In the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator is expected to be the perfect wife by the husband and not get involved in a writing career. The second challenge was the societal expectations.
The challenges faced by the feminists were the men or husbands in the society. It was a movement against the male dominated society. They were not to venture towards professional fields. It was against the domestic role that was expected of the women. The first wave of feminism refers to the women’s movement against the societal expectations on the role of women in the middle-class and upper-class women in the 18 th century to the 20 th century. How does this story reflect the challenges put forward by the first wave of feminists?
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