In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman use very powerful descriptive language to describe some of the events or settings in the story. Gilman uses personification, similes, and metaphors to let the reader in to the story and to feel what is happening. One passage that is particularly well written is on the bottom of page 666 where Gilman is describing how the front pattern in the room really does move. “The front pattern …showed first 75 words of 434 total…

…showed last 75 words of 434 total…shady spots where she is not visible is a brilliant way to let the reader show the reader what is really going on with this lady. The fact that the lady seems at times like she is not alone in the room and that when she is able to be seen she is still but in the shadows she is shakes the bars shows us that this lady is probably suffering from dementia and skitsophrenia.