In the “Yellow Wallpaper” from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman suffering from nervous depression narrates her own story. Her husband and her occupy a curious mansion for the summer. He choses to establish their bedroom in the nursery at the top of the house. The first description of this room appears quite positive despite some disturbing elements she mentions: “the windows are barred”, “there are rings and things in the walls” (194) and especially the awful yellow wallpaper she starts describing in a troubling way: “it is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others” (194). She confesses, her husband John, a physician, wants the best for her and is doing everything in his power to help her recovering from her …show more content…
He prevents her from wandering inside and outside the house, getting people’s visits, and writing. She should only dedicate her time to resting in her bedroom. He believes this specific regimen should refrain her vivid imagination which might be at the origin of her sickness. But, this marginalization treatment appears to worsen her condition. She becomes more and more obsessed by the wallpaper. She sees in the pattern: “unblinking eyes everywhere” (196). She then perceives “a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure” behind the design. Later on, a woman takes form as trapped behind the curves of the wallpaper. The wallpaper woman becomes alive shaking the bars at night and become free creeping around to escape the wallpaper during the day. The narrator enters in a frenetic phase where she locks herself up in the bedroom, bites and tears off the wallpaper. She appears now totally insane since she sees many creeping women and is convinced being one of them. John fears deeply for his wife. He succeeds in breaking into the room and suddenly faints discovering his wife in such a delusional state. Standing in her way next to the wall, she ends up writing she has to creep over