In the story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist of the story is a woman whose name we are never given that suffers from a physiological disorder. There are mentions throughout the story that suggest that she suffers from postpartum depression, in mention of her baby she says “And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman, 8). Her husband John is a doctor and believes that she suffers from a slight hysterical tendency and believes it best if she stays on bed rest all day, she believes that there is a women imprisoned behind the yellow wallpaper in their bedroom. She’s convinced that the wallpaper pattern makes bars that imprisons “the women behind it as plain as can be”(Gilman, 12). The women that she sees in the wallpaper is a representation of herself, she’s imprisoned by her family and in a way her mind. Then she breaks free in the end by tearing the wallpaper from the wall and helping the person trapped in it escape, thereby releasing herself as well.
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