In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays the protagonist as an “ill” woman. I think that the narrator is “ill” because her husband basically kept her trapped in a room with yellow wallpaper and would not let her out and be who she wanted to be. The conflict in the story is that the narrator was living in a time when women were only expected to fulfill there “wifely duties” and nothing more. The narrator is constantly being put down by her husband, John, for even thinking about writing or doing anything else besides being a “wife”. He tells her that she must have self-control over her imagination because he does not want her to think for herself. And forbids her to “work” until she is well again
