1st Person in Yellow Wallpaper

The point of view Yellow Wallpaper is told from makes quite an impact on how it is perceived. Yellow Wallpaper is told to the reader through the wife's perspective. Although she is convinced that nothing seems to be the matter with her the people around here keep assuring her that she's mentally unstable. Throughout the story the reader is witness to a firsthand account of the mental demise of the narrator. Her fragile mental state and her family's abandonment cause her detachment from reality to snowballs and she loses all normality. Since the story is narrated in the 1st person perspective the reader becomes the only outlet for her feelings and shares a special bond with the narrator. It is possible that by feeling so connected to the narrator the reader keeps wishing that everything would work out in the end. The author deliberately does this to evoke the pathos within the reader and make the narrator's role as the protagonist definite. Throughout the story I kept waiting for a happy ending . The point of view also made this story hard for me to put down and ultimately it made the story memorable in my mind.