Who Is Charlotte Perkins Gilman´s The Yellow Wallpaper?

Women have also been the most likely to experience a form of depression. And this patient is no different. Today’s case will be centered around “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a book by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that tells the story of a woman gone mad for being trapped in a small room filled with yellow wallpaper. This story will be told like any report, and the protagonist will be referred to as a patient in the future. The patient, after research, suffers from postpartum as a result of childbirth and anxiety. The following passages will help elaborate more, with some secondary sources on the way.

To start, the first reason the patient went mad was due to giving birth to her newly born son. The story supports this as it begins with the patient, an

And that is simply due to the room itself. tells that the patient was secretly writing in her journal behind her husband’s back, and it reveals how she descended into madness. The wife writes about her well-being and that she spends most of her time staring at the wallpaper. She explains that the wallpaper in the bedroom had an odd, unnerving feeling and a smell that she can only explain as “a yellow smell”. It continues with the wife describing the pattern and how she traces it across the room to see where it ends. The wife then says that the wallpaper in certain lighting shows prison bars and how she sees women behind them moving and wanting to escape. She then goes on to talk more about the wallpaper and how she becomes more delusional whenever she thinks about the wallpaper. She told her husband, John, that she was not getting any better and wanted to leave the room. But John keeps on telling her that she looks healthier and that she has to wait until summer is over. The woman still trapped in the room later tears the wallpaper thinking that she is freeing the woman trapped inside. She tore every shred of paper until the room was bare. The wife finishes her journal by explaining that during the final day of their stay, her husband John came to the room and fainted after seeing her all alone creeping around the room. That was all the wife wrote and she confessed to the authorities about her doings. A more suitable family will adopt the woman’s