Yellow wallpaperThe yellow wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins

Yellow wallpaperThe yellow wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. This story is about a woman who is suffering from mental disorder after giving birth. John, her husband who is a physician is not believed in her illness. For him she is just suffering from a temporary nervous depression. In this story the narrator, who is a feminist shows how the women were treated in 19th century.The story “The yellow wallpaper” took place in 19th century. During this time women were considered as inferior human being. They were oppressed and did not have any world to say in society management. The society was completely dominated by men and women did not have a place only in house. As said by Jeannette Kings and Pam Morris: “Women, no less than texts, have been subjected to a hermeneutic tradition which looks through the multiplicity of their actual beings to impose unitary meaning sealed with the authority of patriarchal knowledge and power to name. So women are “angels in the house”, loving, self-sacrificing, and chaste as wives, mothers and daughters, or they are she-devils and Delilahs, dangerous, sexually enchanting, but always ultimately doomed. Read thus, solely in relation to male needs, the only approved images of self-available to women reflect and sustain patriarchal ideology.” (1) So, when the woman got a mental illness due to a post-partum depression, John thought it was a temporary depression. He is not believed in her illness. She says: “You see he is does not believe I am a sick.” (Gilman 317). For him, her problem has nothing to with health problem. Her brother, a physician also shares the same idea with john. For her treatment, John prescribes her a rest cure and prohibited her from all physical activities. She is not even allowed to read or write. The only thing she can do is eating and sleeping in a separate room.She thinks that this rest cure ordained to her by John is not the best one. She says: “Personally, I disagree with their ideas.” (Gilman 317). She is convinced that in her actual situation, something distractive will make her happy by saying: “Personally, I believe that congenital work, with excitement and change, would do me good.” (Gilman 317). But “What is one to do”