The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Throughout history women have represented differently in literature throughout time as the opinions and few of women changed. What started in the early ages as viewing women as objects, property and “do alls” for men, was exhibited in the literature of that time. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she shows the views of women in her time period by; her explanation of undiagnosed postpartum depression, views of isolation, and the showing the men in her main character's life.
Throughout most of the story the audience witnesses, the daily struggles the main character faces in the point of her life that she is in, what in the 21st century would be known as postpartum depression, in Gilman's time would have gone undiagnosed. We as the audience see very little quotes throughout the whole story pertaining to the baby, this alone can be enough to show us that the narrator, may
In the story both her brother and husband are doctors we know at this time that there was no law about conflict of interest so we can assume as the reader that her husband is the one that diagnosed her with this illness that also wasn't even really an illness. We see that she follows her husband's orders as if he is a doctor even though he is a doctor legally he shouldn't be her doctor. “And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head” (Gilman 251). In this we see that John cares for his wife, but it is uncertain if that care is from a marital point of view or a doctor point of view. This is unsettling to the listener of the narrator's story, because it shows us that at this point in history, women have no right to choose their own doctor, or have the ability to have a say so in their