Charlotte Perkins Gilman created a strong fictional character by using her personal experience with postpartum depression, which created robust insinuations of women as a whole. Gilman realized her experience was more than an individual happening indicated by when narrator noticed there was another imprisoned female. The Yellow Wallpaper symbolizes the denouncement of the treatment entirely, but as well as the anti feminist disposition politics which took place that left the women vulnerable. Gilman used a diverse vocabulary and many literary devices that helped increase the reader’s perspective on postpartum depression. The hierarchy of John’s relationship to the narrator represents the gender equality and the fine divide between male and female during that time period. Gilman emphasizes John’s patronizing and fatherlike behavior to make it evident that it had little to do with the condition of his wife’s mental illness. He belittles her very complex and detailed opinions and her moments of exaggeration with arrogance. He speaks to her in such a way a father would to his daughter, calling her his “little girl” and saying “bless her little heart.” He …show more content…
She tries to fight against the sluggishness that has been taking over and questions John’s treatment. She wants to believe he is wrong, but has been internally brainwashed to believe that he has full authority because of the fact he is a male as well as a doctor, therefore must be correct. While knowingly that the treatment is worsening her condition and due to the fact that she has lowered self esteem and courage, the are unequal in power in the relationship as well as society, and refuses to assert herself. The narrator’s mind becomes muddled and disoriented like a child. The restrictiveness of any leisure, or any ambition causes the narrator to have illusions of shadows on the