The Yellow Wallpaper, By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes us through the journey of a woman that is depressed, after having her baby, in the short story named ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. Despite the numerous attempts to get help, her husband and brother who are both physicians, continue to inform her that it is ‘all in her head’ and that she is not actually depressed. They both think that she is fine. They believe that she is just letting her surroundings determine the outcome, instead of determining her own outcome, despite the circumstances around her. She continues to try to prove that she is mentally struggling and needs more than a prescription continuously shoved in her face. The room that she stays in, while sick, has yellow wallpaper. She hates the wallpaper and constantly asks her husband, John if they can change it. At first, he
In Reproducing Feminism in Jasmine and “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the author takes us through when she is in the room with the yellow wallpaper, and starts to allow her mind to wander off. She allows herself to start thinking that there is a woman, within the wallpaper, that she sees ‘crawling behind the bars of the prison-like pattern, in the wallpaper’ (Nadkarni 219). She loves to write down things in her journal, but is eventually ‘forbidden to write’ (219), by the people around her. I believe that her journaling is actually working against her, because it tends to open up doors to the problems that she is thinking and allows her to dwell on those things. She always seems to find a way to push people away that are closest to