the yellow wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is a partly autobiographical story of clinical depression and the fight for selfhood that is written by an early feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This woman keeps a journal that she secretly keeps, because her husband, also physician, forbids her to make any intellectual actions that he thinks are contributing to his wife’s mental disease. Gilman, a new mother, has been brought to a country house for a "rest-cure" by her husband which he selects a former nursery with yellow wallpaper. The narrator explains her hatred for the room at the start of her stay as, “I don’t like our room a bit…I never saw a worse paper in my life…The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight (43).” However, over time her feelings begin to change, “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper (48).”
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