The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Self-expression can be defined as someone who expresses their thoughts, feelings, and opinions through writing, a work of art, or anything they can get their hands on to just express themselves. Self-expression seems to be the main theme in the story. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” can suggest that women in the 19th century have no way of self-expressing themselves in the way they want to be heard.
Gilman wants us to know that the short story is written in first person point of view and it is giving us an inside glimpse on how women in the 19th century couldn’t express how they feel. How their husbands were on a higher level than the women. How the narrator’s husband dominates every aspect of her life, where she has no say so in what happens and how it happens.
John ends up putting her in a room with treatment that he calls his “resting cure”. The narrator describes the room she is put in. She describes it in her journal as “It is a big, airy room, […] It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it […]” (Gilman 474). The narrator is getting treated like a child from her husband because he doesn’t want her to do much of anything under his