The Yellow Wallpaper Feminist Analysis

In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main character narrates her life after suffering from postpartum depression. This story was written in 1892 from a huge feminist standpoint. The author wrote from feminist views, as she illustrated the mental and physical hardships women faced during this time period. Feminism is the assumption that women can be treated and viewed as equal to men. During the 1800s women were put out to be housewives and mothers. They were often frowned upon if they tried to do anything other than take care of the house and raise the children. John, the narrator’s husband, was a Physician so he was saw to be higher up than the woman.
If a woman happened to suffer from a mental illness, and fall into a depressed mental state of mind, such as John 's wife in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, you are believed to be hysteria. The cure for hysteria was keep the woman insider her home. That is what John did with his wife. Not only does the story show the mental aspects of the women, but it attempts to show how society views mentally unstable women. A medical condition for a woman back then leads to a lot of the way a woman was treated and the way her life went.
Not only does “The Yellow Wallpaper” go through the narrator 's …show more content…
This passage states “Gilman’s story quickly evolved from a relatively obscure and subversive magazine piece of the late nineteenth century to a formative feminist classic” (St.Jean, 2002, pg. 397). This is just another way of showing how feminism is portrayed strongly throughout Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Not only did the women in this time period get belittled, but it wasn’t hidden. No matter what occurred during this period, it always seemed to be related back to feminism and the way men treated (looked down) on