Charlotte Perkins Stetson's The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Stetson, in her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper describes an event in which a woman encounters freedom from unraveling yellow wallpaper. Stetson and her husband, John, “secured ancestral halls for the summer.” Unfortunately, she becomes ill and John diagnoses her with “slight hysterical tendency.” Although, she wants to have fun and do work, her husband forbids her from doing so until she becomes better. Furthermore, he picks out one of the rooms in the house, so she can rest, “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious” – emphasizing that she is trapped while her husband is free to do as he pleases.
“At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight,