Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a woman who has begun to suffer from a “temporary nervous depression” (Gilman, Backpack 216). The narrator, woman, is being treated by her physician husband by S. Weir Mitchell’s renowned rest cure, which requires her to do absolutely nothing until she is well again. During the treatment the narrator is kept in a large room, also referred to as the nursery that is surrounded by windows that have bars on them, a bed that is nailed to the floor, and a hideous yellow wallpaper (Gilman, Backpack 217). The combination of this treatment and room are a combination of what eventually lead the narrator to go truly mad. Gilman’s use of theme and symbolism in the exaggerated semiautobiographical short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” helped aid in the reform of mental health treatment for women, and change society’s idea of a woman’s place.…