The Yellow Wallpaper displays a women suffering with hysteria. Around the time this was written in 1892, nobody knew how to cure or help this type of disease, some even doubted its existence. In the story, the best cure is to be “forbidden to ‘work’”(Gilman 135). The idea was that women were rushed into this lifestyle prematurely. They were not accustomed to the work of a man and therefore became crazy. The best cure was to step out of the life of a man, specifically work. A return to the womanly dream was necessary; this included lying in bed all day. This disease of hysteria was widespread and still widely misunderstood. A German doctor in 1892 summed up that, “She was suffering from hysteria, and her pains, the doctor said, were entirely