Depression In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the author uses the short story to tell about her own experience with severe depression and the effects it had on her. She does this with reflection through the main characters, vivid description of the surroundings, and telling the story in first person.
To begin, Gilman’s character of this story is a reflection of what the author had encountered after the birth of her first child. The character, who is unnamed throughout the short story is placed on bed rest which was the same treatment Gilman went through when suffering from her depression. Both Gilman and her character were continuously being told that nothing was wrong with their physical self and that bed rest and isolation would