In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the literary elements she uses in the main focus of the story and what contributes to the theme of the story, that being trapped in a place can make you go insane. The woman's husband would tell her that she just needed to rest so that she would get better “He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well”(Gilman 8). John is trying to be controlling but make it look as if it were her decision to get “better” for him not because it is something she wants to do. It seems as if the women thinks she is sick just because her husband is telling her she is. Her illness has come from being suck in the same room all the time because
