Charlotte Perkins Stetson, in her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, suffers from a nervous depression illness, thus having to spend an entire summer vacation in a mansion in conflict with her husband, John. In this narrative, Stetson uses first-hand account to demonstrate how females were viewed by males during her time period. Throughout the narrative, Stetson uses imagery, dialogue, and symbolism to further engage her audience in the story and to demonstrate what female, such as herself, had to endure in order to be heard in a male dominated
