The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1892 is a both haunting psychological story and a feminist masterpiece of women’s rights activist. During a time, women were kept in a position that prevented them from existing beyond the sphere of their home effectively hindering any kind of intellectual or creative growth marriage, as a result, of a sticky situation family life. Gilman felt that she could never really satisfy everyone in the family and things needed to change. Women needed to have the opportunity to work, to grow, and to make connections outside of the home. While, Gilman wrote many essays concerning concepts of social reform and progressive change along with other poems, short stories,
It was after the birth of her daughter from where she had suffered from what we now know was probably a severe case of postpartum depression, the suggested cure for this was unknown. Rest cure as they called it back then is a length of time during which the patient did the minimal physical activity and had very limited mental stimulations because as some doctors believed the condition was brought on by too much going on in the patient's mind or a kind of hysteria or nervousness. It was a miserable time for Gilman who was reduced to a mental break down and it was only after she stopped listening to her doctor and husband that she started to improve, the traumatic course of action and the lack of insight into the emotional state have left scars that will feel for the rest of her life. It was from this emotion that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, her story is important to remember because it was written in the first person in the form of a
She goes on home and obeys the directions for three months and came so near to the borderline of utter mental ruins that she could see over it and recovers by writing, The Yellow Wallpaper. She did send a copy of The Yellow Wallpaper to the physician who nearly killed her by prescribing the rest cure, but she tells us that he never acknowledged receiving it, so he ignored it. Gilman ultimately perhaps because of her illness and the treatment received for her illness ultimately scrambled to suicide. The narrator talks about how the house is beautiful and how much she loves it, she described it as, “The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, there are hedges and walls and gates that lock.” Even though she is describing the house is beautiful and how much she likes it, we personally objectively can see that there are things about this house that are unusual, threating, or forbidden. The village that isolates the house from other places where people