Throughout the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader on an adventure of how women were treated during the period of the rest cure. Many women during this period have a certain standard they have to live up to. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the husband realizes that his wife is sick and needs medical attention. He then realizes that the only way she could get better is through the rest cure. The rest cure was developed in the late 1800's and is displayed substantially throughout the text. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the rest cure leads the narrator down a long road of depression.
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper", it was during a period when women had no rights. This period was …show more content…
Many people who have heard of depression do not realize how severe depression can get for some people, such as the women in the short story. Based on the text, the patients road of depression begins when she gives birth to her child. After giving birth to the baby the patient begins to experience Postpartum Depression. Postpartum Depression is the type of depression that some women experience shortly after giving birth (Postpartum Depression). The majority of women who experience Postpartum Depression usually begin to experience depression three weeks after giving birth. On the other hand, some women do not begin to experience Postpartum Depression until up to a year after they have given birth. At the very beginning of the story, the patient says, "...there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what does one do" (Gilman 1). This particular quote is important because it is explaining that the patient has come to the realization that she is suffering from …show more content…
Her obsession begins to get so severe that she starts to think that there was someone inside the wall. Gilman tells us "And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begun to think – I wish John would take me away from here!" *(Gilman 5). Not only did the patient think there was someone behind the walls, but she also began to think she was the one behind the walls. The patient has constantly rubbed herself against the wallpaper to the point of her clothes turning yellow. If anybody had the thought of saying something about it or even thinking to touch it, the patient would become very defensive over the wallpaper. Gilman explains towards the end of the story how when her husband, John, looked at the wallpaper she began to think that John was trying to hurt the wallpaper. On page seven of the text, the patient says, "I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once" (Gilman 7). The obsession with the wallpaper becomes so extreme that she is afraid John is going to take it away from her. The patient says, "I had no intention of telling him it was BECAUSE of the wall-paper—he would make fun of me. He might even take
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper", it was during a period when women had no rights. This period was …show more content…
Many people who have heard of depression do not realize how severe depression can get for some people, such as the women in the short story. Based on the text, the patients road of depression begins when she gives birth to her child. After giving birth to the baby the patient begins to experience Postpartum Depression. Postpartum Depression is the type of depression that some women experience shortly after giving birth (Postpartum Depression). The majority of women who experience Postpartum Depression usually begin to experience depression three weeks after giving birth. On the other hand, some women do not begin to experience Postpartum Depression until up to a year after they have given birth. At the very beginning of the story, the patient says, "...there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what does one do" (Gilman 1). This particular quote is important because it is explaining that the patient has come to the realization that she is suffering from …show more content…
Her obsession begins to get so severe that she starts to think that there was someone inside the wall. Gilman tells us "And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begun to think – I wish John would take me away from here!" *(Gilman 5). Not only did the patient think there was someone behind the walls, but she also began to think she was the one behind the walls. The patient has constantly rubbed herself against the wallpaper to the point of her clothes turning yellow. If anybody had the thought of saying something about it or even thinking to touch it, the patient would become very defensive over the wallpaper. Gilman explains towards the end of the story how when her husband, John, looked at the wallpaper she began to think that John was trying to hurt the wallpaper. On page seven of the text, the patient says, "I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once" (Gilman 7). The obsession with the wallpaper becomes so extreme that she is afraid John is going to take it away from her. The patient says, "I had no intention of telling him it was BECAUSE of the wall-paper—he would make fun of me. He might even take