The Yellow Wallpaper: A First Person Narrative

     The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses first person narration to allow readers to go into the woman's head and understand what she is perceiving more clearly. Although the main character is not very coherent and is crazy, the first person narration does indeed make it clearer to understand the character because the reader can therefore realize just how crazy she is sounding. The first person narration also makes is much easier for readers to sympathize and conceive an emotional link with the main character. 

     Perhaps the only downside to the first person narration here is that the views of John and other characters are biased to the woman's perception. We, the reader, are depending on this crazy's woman's point of view when she is obviously insane. However, because she is crazy and we are inside of her head, so to speak, it makes the story all the more interesting and definitely makes this story stand out.