In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the wife is kept confined as a result of her nervous condition.The wife, Jane, is confined and controlled by her husband, John. She is taken away from her home and John barely allows her company and does not allow her to write. While she is there, she has to sleep in a room with ugly yellow wallpaper. After being in the room so long, Jane becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She begins to see a woman behind the pattern. It is her confinement to the house, the room, and her husband that induces her mental state to insanity. Jane’s nervous condition is caused by postpartum depression. Symptoms of postpartum depression include anxiety, mood swings, crying, irritability, depression, repeatedly going over thoughts, unwanted thoughts, fatigue, and loss of appetite. Jane exhibited these many of these symptoms. In paragraphs 49 and 50 Jane talks about her baby, “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman 528). Jane wants to be with her baby, but her nerves won’t allow her. In “Postpartum Depression: A Review” is says, “Up to 60%
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Being one of the only people Jane had contact with, she relied on him and what he did or say. If he said one thing, Jane could no dispute it. For instance, John would not listen to his wife about her own health, “‘Better in body perhaps-’ I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word” (Gilman 532). John got upset with her when she disagreed with him about her getting better. John had complete control over Jane’s healthcare, which may have had a major effect on her. Because John was her husband, he may have been to attached to look at her case objectively and do or notice what any other doctor would. Like noticing signs of her going
Being one of the only people Jane had contact with, she relied on him and what he did or say. If he said one thing, Jane could no dispute it. For instance, John would not listen to his wife about her own health, “‘Better in body perhaps-’ I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word” (Gilman 532). John got upset with her when she disagreed with him about her getting better. John had complete control over Jane’s healthcare, which may have had a major effect on her. Because John was her husband, he may have been to attached to look at her case objectively and do or notice what any other doctor would. Like noticing signs of her going