The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by, American novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.This story was written during a time where men and women weren't treated equally, and in the case of mental illness, some women didn't get proper treatment they needed so they would end up getting worse then better. In this short story, that is exactly what happens. This story is about a woman named Jane, who has some sort of mental illness, and her husband John, a Physician, rents out a Colonial mansion for the summer so she can get better by having solitude and just needs to not do anything strenuous, that includes writing, which is one of her passions. She even says, “Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”(226) So Jane believes Johns methods won’t work with helping her. …show more content…
She has minimum social interactions and her husband goes away every so often to lecture in different places leaving Jane behind. And he dismisses her concerns about her condition and doesn't really listen to her. As time goes on Jane becomes more obsessed with the wallpaper in her room, and starts seeing a woman in a yellow dress crawling outside the house and eventually believes that woman is stuck on the other side of the yellow wallpaper and one day while John is away Jane locks herself up in the room and starts tearing the wallpaper off so she can “free” the woman behind it and then starts creeping along the wall and starts saying she won’t ever leave that room. And when John gets home he’s telling jane to open the door, but Jane just simply tells him where the key is, and eventually John breaks the door and sees Jane creeping around and he faints, but Jane simply starts creeping over him. As we can see when Jane was forced to be a situation she didn't want to be she became an entirely different