Women In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, it is understood that the narrator is a woman who has a mental illness but cannot overcome it due to her husband’s controlling ways. Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrates the ideological victimization of many women of the early 19th century through a gothic tale of humor where women suffering from post-partum depression is isolated. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written in 1892, metaphorically illustrates the captive and oppressed state of women during those time period through which Gilman herself had experienced for many years with bouts of depression and anxiety and was advised to do the “rest cure” for nervous illness and depression. The woman in the story goes insane because her role in society is limited and her ability