The Yellow Wall-paper was written by, Charlotte Perkins Gilman first published in the Forerunner of October 1913. This story is about a woman who is diagnosed with “nervous depression” by her physician. The physician is a high standing doctor, John who is also her husband. Her brother is a well-known physician also of high standing and he too gives her the same diagnosis “nervous depression”. With this diagnosis she is prohibited from any work and never to touch pen and pencil again as long as she lived. John takes her out for a three month vacation to a colonial mansion so she can rest and get well from the depression she was suffering. This vacation doesn’t help her much, yet it makes her become more oppressed. The Yellow Wall-paper is attempting to teach us how a wrong diagnosis from the physician can completely change your life.
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The narrator was oppressed by her own husband treated her based on her “illness”. He wanted her to rest as much as possible, yet that wasn’t working for her. She wouldn’t sleep at night and wouldn’t eat during the day, yet he insisted she looked much better. John had Jennie checking up on her and Mary taking care of the baby all the time. The narrator was beginning to believe that all John and Jennie wanted was for her best, because of her depression. She stopped herself from thinking of her illness because it was best for her, “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus – but John say the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. So I will let it alone and talk about the house.” (Charlotte P. Gilman 792). She trusted John as her husband, so she believed
The narrator was oppressed by her own husband treated her based on her “illness”. He wanted her to rest as much as possible, yet that wasn’t working for her. She wouldn’t sleep at night and wouldn’t eat during the day, yet he insisted she looked much better. John had Jennie checking up on her and Mary taking care of the baby all the time. The narrator was beginning to believe that all John and Jennie wanted was for her best, because of her depression. She stopped herself from thinking of her illness because it was best for her, “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus – but John say the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. So I will let it alone and talk about the house.” (Charlotte P. Gilman 792). She trusted John as her husband, so she believed