The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I enjoyed the first person narration in this short story.  I believe that using the first person perspective effectively set the readers in the moment of the growth to insanity.  The author’s method of creating a tale directly from the eyes of the character helps the readers clearly see the progression into madness. I also noticed some foreshadowing within the passage.  On page 10 the narrator describes the bars in the wallpaper and states, “and the woman behind it is as plain as can be”.  The woman behind the bars of the wallpaper can be viewed as a reflection of herself in the room itself, which also has bars.  At the end of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character also begins to creep around the floor of the room, just as the woman behind the wallpaper bars had done earlier in the story.  Her feelings of being trapped in the room are projected into the wallpaper.