Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work exhibits the inequitable social status of women in the nineteenth century and the restrictions placed upon them because it reveals the effects of mental illness and remoteness, the need for self-expression, and the consequences of discrimination. We learn from the author’s struggles that once a person is forced into inactivity with an inert mind, they become dangerous and calamitous to themselves. Written during a period of growth and development, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is used to allow today’s society to understand the disastrous effects mental disorders have on the mind and to care for them properly. Gilman is truly expressing herself through her abstract story by removing the veil from the eyes of women to
