Postpartum Depression In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

In the short story The yellow wallpaper (1892), Charlotte Perkins Gilman is writing a warning to the dangers of prolonged isolation. Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes this story from her past experience with postpartum depression and the long sense abolished rest cure of which she endured extreme solitude and very little human contact. After her experience in the rest cure she was sent home and told to only spend two hours a day of intellectual time and to never pick up a pen, pencil, brush or anything of that nature ever again. Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes a nameless narrator who's going through the same postpartum depression as she did and is forced under go rest cure by her husband John who's as well her physician. Our narrator describes …show more content…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's writes a narrative that undergoes a much more difficult experience then she did herself while in the rest cure during her postpartum depression. The narrator has hallucinations which Charlotte Perkins Gilman's did not. The embellishment of the increased mental distress of narrator only furthers the point of solitude in a depressed state will only make the depression worse more so with postpartum from the lack of contact with her child.
Its foreshadowed in the story that the narrator will hang herself and in the last paragraph of the story she writes a scene in which she traps herself in the room with the intent "getting out" and once John enters the room he faints and the story ends. This is referencing her committing suicide or so the story should have you think. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's killing her narrator in the end is only to prove the anguish she was put under while she was force into the rest cure.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story The yellow wallpaper (1892) warns the reader of the dangers of prolonged isolation while in a depressed state. The narrator's mental state