Free Yellow Wallpaper Essays: The Dead Paper -- Yellow Wallpaper essa

The Dead Paper of Gilmans Yellow cover This passage from The Yellow Wall write up clarifies the position of the reader in the story. It brings into question, right on the first page, who the woman (and Gilman herself) is addressing and why. When she writes, I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind, it is as if she is having an aside with the reader. If she were truly talking to dead paper, why would such a comment be required? The thinker of dead paper makes one think of something that is written, never to be published or read. In this sense, the caption can make the reader feel as if he or she is looking in privately on this womans diary. The fact that this is a great relief to her mind makes the reader feel slightly little furtive about this, while giving the diary-type style raison dtre. At the same time, (since this story was meant to be published and read) this comment in and of itself addresses the reader personall y, as if to compose special confidence in him or her. The issue here is the differenti...