Summary Of The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In my opinion, “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (published in the year 1892) is a feminist story, telling of a time about a woman's daily struggle against what was the male-centric thinking and society "norms" of their time; Charlotte Gilman does this by writting the journey of how the female protagonist of her story eventually broke free from the oppression coming from the protagonist husbond.
In the first place, Janes husband, John, shows a near-obsession with what he believes is reason; despite the fact Jane is growing ill and mad. In the story, John stands between Jane’s freedom and influencing her in many ways. This is because in the story John prescribes Jane with several months of the "Rest cure". During this, Jane was expressly forbidden to write and/or engage in any type of activity that involves creativity. But as stateted in the story," But I can write when she is out...” (Glinan 650). Jane still writes in secret; which shows how Johns prescription really is not the needed medical treatment for Jane. Furthermore John insists to Janes family, friends, and to her as well that Jane is not sick but is temporarily suffering from nervous depression. In addition, this illustrates, in my opinion, how John (males) dominate Jane (women) and gave her no
Janes environment is nearly prison-like; when Jane wishes for the walls to be repapered, her husband, John, refuses, stating “that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on” (Gilman 649). Though Jane may feel repressed by these bars and gates, her husband refuses to change her environment; he wishes to keep her imprisoned in the dreadful