Ayn Rand's Short Story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

There are a variety of reasons why a person might feel trapped and suffocated, and why they might be trying trying to change their lives by escaping an oppressive society. During one's everyday life it is not easy to understand what might be putting someone down, but when reading a story, an author can leave hints on why a character or characters might be feeling trapped and why they might be trying to escape from an oppressive society. In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper, the reader follows the narrator’s story through her diary, a woman wrongfully diagnosed and ordered to be locked inside a house by her husband, also being her doctor, and the events she goes through that reveal the narrator's descent into madness.