The Yellow Wallpaper

The 1st-person narration point of view in "The Yellow Wallpaper," is a tough perspective when the narrator is slowly sinking into madness. The author's use of the first person to convey the story allows the readers to go along for the ride into madness and makes us feel a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her unfortunate situation. The constant use of "I" in the story puts the reader's right into the narrators head and allows us to feel what she feels too. It clues us to feel her uncertainty and hesitation at the beginning and determination towards the end. If we took everything she says at face value, we would believe that women really do get trapped in wallpaper. This is the best part of 1st-person narration, you'r never sure if the narrator's perceptions actually reflect what's going on. Because of this many topics are left to the interpretation of the reader and may not accurately depict what actually occurred or the emotions of the other characters.