yellow wallpaper--A Fragile Mind

Throughout the story, her husband would laugh at her and feed her pain medication and tonics to control her (Gilman 450). Perhaps, he did it to make her believe she was mad. She embarked on her husbands strategy; saying, “John is a physician, and perhaps that is one reason I don’t get well faster” (Gilman 450). Her only escape was in her writing. Eventually, she began to slowly creep out of the house while her husband worked to clear her mind. She knew that she was sick (mentally), but she was unaware of how much.


In the mist of ghost and demons, which were planted deep ...