After writing the yellow wallpaper, Charlotte Gilman then wrote a brief summary which explains “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper.” Through this article she explains to reader what inspired her to write this piece. Charlotte growing up suffered a mental illness herself, which inspired her to write this short story on how her illness was treated. She describes how “she went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best know in the country.” In the short story John threaten her that “if I don’t pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.” In her short story and article, she explains how she went to a doctor who claimed their was nothing wrong with her. But the doctors put her
