Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Stetson's The Yellow Wallpaper

The late 1800s was consisted of a time period where white men had rights, and women were to do as told. In 1892 Charlotte Perkins Stetson published a short story, “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” This story is between a married couple ; John, a physician, and his wife. They decided to spend their summer at a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, due to the wife being sick with temporary nervous depression. In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” John, the colonial mansion and the rooms within reveals the meaning of the confinement of women’s rights during the late 1800s.
As John and his wife arrive to the colonial mansion, the wife says, “The most beautiful place! It is quite alone…” (Stetson 648). The large colonial mansion makes the wife think of all of the big ideas and things that women have the potential to achieve, but they are limited to what they can do and say. For this reason, this is why the colonial mansion is isolated.
Entering the house, the wife hopes to be on the bottom floor of the hereditary estate, but
The wife stated, “I never saw a worse paper in my life” (Stetson 648). The unseemly gross, yellow wallpaper speaks for the women and how poor their life truly was. Important to realize, the wife saw multiple patterns in the wallpaper, not to mention, she also saw a woman trapped in the wall. The woman in the wall is very much like women in the late 1800s because they were shut in and restricted to what they could do and say. The woman behind the pattern in the wall is trying to escape just like the wife wants to escape from society, do what she believes is best for her. Even though she listens to her husband, she does not always do as she is told, but her husband doesn’t know that. This era was a time where women didn’t have many rights, and they were fighting hard to get some. Instead of working, women were usually stuck at home, cooking for their family, and doing