The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gillman said she wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” to reveal the dangers of treating a woman with the same therapy given to man. She held this opinion as a result of an upgrade from being mildly depressed to mentally unstable. This happened because of the rest treatment she was given. She didn’t need rest; she needed meaningful work. This treatment is more suitable to men of her time, considering they generally bore the workload. Gillman says she didn’t write literature. Conrad Shumaker argues the story goes beyond the author’s direct purpose. The author succeeds in revealing the urgent feminist issues through literature a...