Different authors have their different ways to write their stories and novels. Sometimes, they use different point of view to tell their messages to the readers. Most of the authors usually use the third person “he” or “she” as their narrators’ point of view to help them shape their stories. Sometimes, they would like to use first person “I” as their narrators’ point of view to shape their stories. For example, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She used the first person point of view to write her story as journal. As she used “I” to form her story, the narration made to seem probable because the narrator in this story has some kind of mental problem. In addition, using the first person point of view is hard to judge if the narrator is telling the truth or not, even though the narrator is telling the readers part of the truth. Therefore, it’s possible that the information provided by the narrator are imagination.
At the beginning of the story, Gilman used a mysterious way to describe the house that the narrator and her husband just moved in for the summer. The description of the house showed the narrator’s purpose which she wanted the readers think this house is creepy. “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity – but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.” (Gilman 1) This statement tells us that the narrator was the only one who thought this house was haunted. She wanted the readers to think the same way as hers. That’s why she described the mansion like those mansions that vampires and ghosts are living inside. However, this statement is just her own opinion; it can’t prove the house was haunted or not. Therefore, what she wrote might not be true.
In addition, the following quote showed the way the narrator described the room which she wanted to lead the readers to think she wasn’t wrong about what she...