‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: analysing character
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I can analyse a writer's use of different voices in a narrative.
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A first person narrator can often give the reader a unique insight into their personality, relationships and lifestyle.
The narrator in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is presented as silenced and powerless.
The narrator exposes her husband as oppressive.
Perkins Gilman employs many techniques to show the narrator's lack of agency.
It could be argued that that narrator has agency since everything we learn is filtered through her consciousness.
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