“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is a gothic short story about a woman, whom’s name isn't revealed in the story, who is suffering from depression, possibly postpartum depression, and how and why the illness spirals out of control throughout the story. The narrator's “madness” is solely focused on getting,what she sees as a trapped woman out of the pattern, bars, of the “wallpaper.”
First, the narrator speaks of her setting then introduces her sickness and a conflict between her husband and herself by saying “John is a physician, and perhaps -(...) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.You see he does not believe I am sick!” This causes the reader to question why they are at the “colonial mansion” and what
First, the narrator speaks of her setting then introduces her sickness and a conflict between her husband and herself by saying “John is a physician, and perhaps -(...) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.You see he does not believe I am sick!” This causes the reader to question why they are at the “colonial mansion” and what