The narrative voice is a first person.

The main aim of this choice is to offer the reader a more realistic narration of her feelings and her descent into madness. But there are some things which clash with her attempt of realism. First, she fails to be reliable, since the first person tends to be subjective. Secondly, objectivity depends on a narrator who is going insane. Though her insanity can be interpreted as the achievement of freedom, as a consequence it could be interpreted that the whole story has been made up by an insane mind. Thirdly, she presents herself as an imaginative woman who terrifies herself with imaginary monsters at night, so this could be also a product of her imagination. However, this lac of objectivity fades away with the change of the narrative perspective. She places herself out and inside her head. !hen she is inside, the technique of stream of consciousness appears, and it"s also very useful to see the process of her insanity. The subjectivity can be lin ed to the #in head$ thoughts, while the objectivity would be present in the #out head$ statements. %evertheless, some objectivity is acquired but not a full one, since the story is in the first person. By creating a two&perspective narrator she gets the readers" attention since they have to follow the story very closely in order not to lose any piece of information. The story is written in an epistolary way, some ind of letter to herself. This journal is also used to give immediacy and intimacy, especially when the narrative is bro en by the approach of her husband and 'ennie. The fact that the narrator doesn"t introduce her name indicates that her aim is not to focus on her person as a character but as a stereotype( ) submissive married woman who probably belongs to a middle&class. *ialogue is also present in this story. +t is used as a tool to show both women, the submissive ,whenever she blames herself for her behavior- and the non& conformist one ,when she spea s in favor of herself-. *ialogue could also be understood as the male perspective at that time, as 'ohn represents the stereotype of the dominant husband in the ./th century. He treats her as a child even loo s at her with disapproval. +n The Yellow Wallpaper e0pression is important, but even more important is the castration of the narrator"s e0pression. This castration is achieved by her husband"s prohibition to write. This is not the mere prohibition of an activity but the castration of the woman"s self&e0pression within marriage and within the society. %evertheless, she manages to write the journal and this difficult achievement full of obstacles could represent the struggle of women to be heard with in society. +n conclusion, one can clearly see that the first person narrator, with the #in and out of head$ change of perspective, combined with the dialogues is the perfect mi0ture to acquire both, objectivity and subjectivity. )t the same time the reader feels sympathy for the narrator and depicts the situation of women in that century. The narrative techniques, altogether with symbolism and irony conform this masterpiece of the female literature.