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).”
The narrator becomes increasingly dysfu...