The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Charlotte Perkins

The Yellow paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilmans, The Yellow Wallpaper is a partial autobiography. It was written shortly after the author suffered a nervous breakdown. This twaddle was written to help save people from being driven crazy. Appropriately, this short story is about a mentally huffy woman and her husbands attempts to help her get well. He does so by convincing her that solitude and constant bed rest is the best way to be cured _or_ healed her problem. She is not allowed to write or do anything that would require thinking. The woman is curtail to a room where she slowly begins to go insane. Atrocious yellow paper covers this room and it aids in her insanity. The woman is paternity the story to pull up her insane thoughts against her husbands will. The Yellow Wallpaper begins with the storyteller talking about her illness. She informs the proofreader that her husband, John, is a physician and he believes she is not still sick. This may pull the reader to believe that she really is not sick also. She even says herself I am glad my case is not serious It is revealed soon that she is writing this story to us, the readers, in secret. She feels comfortable writing on the paper and it relieves her. In the story she says, I would not say it to a living soul, of course, simply this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind. This gives the reader and the narrator a very strong connection. For the reader is the only one to tell apart her deepest thoughts. Throughout the entire story, John controls his wife in a sweet but dominant way. According to him, he knows what is best for her. There is even a time where ... ...pressing herself and her story of insanity. The Yellow Wallpaper presents readers with story of a womans insanity. It tells how women were disregarded at times and treated like frail children at others. Ultimately, Jane realized that she held control ov er her own life. It was her responsibility to relieve her reach and tell her story. This is a story of seclusion and escape. The Yellow Wallpaper, being highly autobiographical for Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was written shortly after her own nervous breakdown. The story is part reality for her and part fiction focusing on the interposition that Dr. S. Weir Mitchell enforced upon her which was rest, seclusion, and absolutely no writing, which is what she loved the most. Her story is a stepping-stone in helping to understand depression, liberating women, and expression.