The Yellow Wallpaper is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, and much depends on personal interpretation. There are many different ways someone can interpret this, but one theory feels more accurate than the others. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman going through postpartum depression, because multiple times throughout the story her baby was specifically mentioned, the setting of the story is where many with postpartum would go, and her husband treats her like she is experiencing it. Throughout the story the narrators baby was mentioned, but in an odd way. She is never with her baby and someone else takes care of it. In the story the narrator writes, "It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby… and yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous”(649). People who experience postpartum depression often get away from their child and have someone else care for them. She is nervous about being with her child, so Mary is taking care of him, just like someone going through postpartum depression would. …show more content…
In the story the narrator describes where she is, saying, "John and myself secured ancestral halls for the summer... a hereditary estate..”(647). One of the cures people used to try for postpartum depression was to go out on a stay in the country-side. They thought it would help calm women down and let them relax. John, her husband, did just that. He took her to a rented summer home out in nowhere. If she was experiencing postpartum depression it would make sense that John would take her away to