It is very important to consider the fact that the story is based on the real facts of the author’s life, but the Gilman could find the ability to cope with the depression while her character did not. The narrator of the story is a woman who experienced the depression and anxiety; she became obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in one of her room. Her husband who also was a doctor prescribed her the rest and did not allow her to work and write. She had to write her journal secretly, and it helped her to deal with her thoughts and anxiety. …show more content…
She was treated as a householder; her husband did not think that her ideas or thoughts had any value. She was limited in her creativity, and this provoked her depression. The narrator did not need the rest, she had to work to distract herself from the negative thoughts, but instead, she was closed in four walls with terrible yellow wallpaper. This wallpaper represents the depression; even its color is morbidly yellow which provoked the narrator to think about moving to another place.
In the modern society the problem of the depression is widely discussed, so to make