Depression In Ernest Hemingway's The Yellow Wallpaper

Have you ever felt confined, like you just can’t seem to escape your current situation no matter how far you venture? A few decades ago, women struggled to break a societal paradigm in which women were subordinated within the institution of marriage. There’s a story called “The Yellow Wallpaper” and this story was written during a harsh time for change. Women went through a difficult time period and a lot of women didn’t know how to deal with it. The yellow wallpaper is a story that could relate… The story sets place in the late nineteenth century. Probably the roaring 20’s, I would say. It takes place in a house primarily in a bedroom, the bedroom that a woman felt trapped in.

A lot of people deal with a depression called posttraumatic and it’s a huge deal in someone’s life. In The Yellow wallpaper it’s the main character (the narrator) a young woman who is suffering from this depression and whose illness gives her
How she described herself as the women trapped behind it is a perfect example. The wallpaper represents her trying to escape her husband. She said, “She saw a woman trapped by bars trying to escape the wallpaper.” This is symbolic of her relationship with her husband most likely, and as she looks farther into the wallpaper she is really thinking of her life and starts to change her mind set talking about how she hates John (husband). She is faced with relationships and situations that seem natural and reality is they’re not; the things she faces are quit absurd. The theme in the yellow wallpaper would be the subordination of women in marriage and being free. The irony would be her journal as she expresses all her thoughts and feelings in it. Since the start you can tell the narrator is a person who shows imagination and is an expressive person. She remembers scaring herself with imaginary night monsters as a kid and she also likes the fact that the house they have now is