A Feminist Critique of the Women’s Role in the 19th Century Society During the course of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper” story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author use the character of the narrator - to whom we never get to know her name and John – the narrator husband to illustrate how a women can become unbalance because of the medical methods to cure insanity and anxiousness in woman’s during the 19th century. More importantly, it shows how women were treated on their daily day life, how they were expected to take care of the kids, maintain the house clean and never disobey their husbands advise. On the contrary of men, who were allowed to have jobs, education, social life plus many more benefits resulted in the women’s inability to raise their voice and show opposition to the patriarchal society. As a key segment of …show more content…
In the subtext of "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman appears to argue that those woman’s who neglect to sincerely assess their place in the public eye and, all the more particularly inside their own homes, are deserving of compassion if not despise. At the beginning of the story, the narrator explains one opportunity when she attempted to contradict her husband but her husband persuaded her of the adequacy of the "rest" cure created by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, she trusts that action, work and mental engagement would be ideal. However, as she illustrates the reader that John has revealed to her that " the very worst thing [she] can do is to think about [her] condition " and she admits that reasoning about it generally "makes me feel bad.” Circumstances like this are a delicate critique from Gilman to the passive woman’s who don’t challenge their confinement and live submissively to men who decided how far they can think or