“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story that takes place at the beginning of the twentieth century which depicts the oppressive nature of marriage from the narrator’s point of view. The unnamed protagonist is suffering from a nervous condition related to postpartum depression. Her husband John, who happens to be a well renowned physician, orders her to solitude and bed rest with minimal social interactions. In the beginning, the narrator rebels against John’s ideal treatment by keeping a secret diary, but as the story progresses John becomes more controlling. John finds his wife’s writing and immediately discontinues one of the narrator’s only means of a creative release. Confined to a room with yellow wallpaper, the narrator spends most of her