The gothic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins, is based on the narrative’s of a women suffering from postnatal depression. The women’s husband a physician, instructs her complete rest and isolation as treatment; her room for treatment is a nursery that is plastered with an unsightly, and maddening yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story, the women expresses her abhor with the wallpaper, and even claims to see a women behind the wallpaper. The women that the narrator spots in the wallpaper is frail and skulking; she is housed by bars, that she is seen “[shaking] hard.. and always trying to climb through [and out]”(343). The women behind the wallpaper is a symbolization of the narrator herself, and her struggle between oppression,
