The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Yellow Wallpaper.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a self-fiction short story driven by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s life events and experiences in which she describes the therapy of women in the interim of a rest cure recommended for nervous disorderliness by a noble specialist Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell. This short story illuminates on the submissiveness, obedience of women to a man’s authority that was considered unexceptional at the onset of the twentieth century.
The unmentioned hero of the book is unable to express what she wants and what she would love to do and satisfy her needs. John, her husband, takes her to a country house so that she could heal her condition. The reader is instantaneously aware of the snobbish attitude of the practitioner husband toward his wife. She is confined to a room that was previously used by the owners as a classroom for nursery kids and besides this was against her will. The room with the yellow wallpaper symbolizes a prison where this woman is curtailed of her rights such as intellectual works of reading and writing. In the beginning, the narrator subordinates against the constraints and keeps a secret diary. When John realizes this, she is punished, and her diary is brutally torn down.
Social interaction is controlled and; therefore, her total freedom is rationed. The husband sometimes is in other cities lecturing, and this leaves the narrator with emptiness in her heart and no emotional support fo…