The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her story The Yellow Wallpaper uses a first-person point of view. This basically makes the story what it is. You see what she going through in a series of journal entries. Her husband doesn't approve of her writing, so she does them in secret to express how she is feeling. Obviously she can't really talk to anyone about what she is writing or her husband would probably sent her away in the belief that she wasn't getting any better. In any other point of view the story wouldn't have been as affective. The only thing we would be getting from another narrator was that she was in a depression. Through the journal entries we see her mind progressing in these thoughts of the wallpaper. With her speaking directly it makes you feel a range of emotions, in the beginning you almost feel bad that he husband is keeping her locked up and treating her this way. Towards the end though it almost makes you see why obviously this women is seriously ill and with the story being in first-person, it gives you an intense, intimate ride through this woman's mind.