Character Analysis: The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Psychotic Wife The women in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, claims to be sick. Her husband who is a doctor, does not believe that she is sick. This kind of drives the women crazy because she is trying to convince everyone that she is sick. Her husband just tells her to not do anything and she’ll get better, but resting won’t cure what she has. She has postpartum depression and staying home alone all day just makes it worse, and she does get worse. This causes her to do something at the end of the story that will show just how crazy she is. At the end of the story the women hits a breaking point. While she is home alone she starts ripping off the wall paper in hopes to let herself free. When her husband comes home,