Fortunately, Charlotte did not experience such vivid hallucinations or creep such as Jane in the story. However, Charlotte did embellish the mental deterioration of Jane to carry out the ideal of the escape of charlotte 's deep and dark depression (Perkins). Not only this but, the entirety of the short story was written to inform people of the treacherous result of the rest cure and to prevent it from happening to others. “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked” (Perkins). Charlotte went as far as to send a copy of her short story to the physician who almost drove her over the edge of crazy and soon thereafter, he stopped prescribing the rest
Fortunately, Charlotte did not experience such vivid hallucinations or creep such as Jane in the story. However, Charlotte did embellish the mental deterioration of Jane to carry out the ideal of the escape of charlotte 's deep and dark depression (Perkins). Not only this but, the entirety of the short story was written to inform people of the treacherous result of the rest cure and to prevent it from happening to others. “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked” (Perkins). Charlotte went as far as to send a copy of her short story to the physician who almost drove her over the edge of crazy and soon thereafter, he stopped prescribing the rest