Although she is a woman of high social status, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” goes mad because she is chronically depressed, lonely, and on drugs all the time. The main character of “The Yellow Wallpaper” went mad by the time the short story ended because she was chronically depressed. During the time that the story took place, women had no say and they weren't well taken care of. They were seen more as children rather than as older individuals. In this case, John, the main characters’ husband, diagnosed her wrong. He diagnosed her with “nervous depression” and that’s not what she had at all (Perkins Stetson 548). She went along with the treatment her husband recommended because she couldn’t say anything about it either. The isolated room her husband recommended she go to only made things worse because she had nothing to do but stare at the wallpaper all day. She could’ve avoided going insane if her husband would’ve diagnosed her correctly.
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She had nothing to do besides look at what was in the room all day. Her physician went to the extreme and even prohibited her from writing in her journal. This messed with her mind because she over thought everything. Her condition worsened and she became more passive and reserved. Eventually, it got to the point where she thought she was the one woman stuck in the wallpaper. By the end of the story the lonely room became a jail cell because she became fixated on the wallpaper and she couldn’t escape from it. Her world revolved around the yellow wallpaper, by the time she started seeing the woman in the wallpaper it was a fact that she had gone insane. “There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern, the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that
She had nothing to do besides look at what was in the room all day. Her physician went to the extreme and even prohibited her from writing in her journal. This messed with her mind because she over thought everything. Her condition worsened and she became more passive and reserved. Eventually, it got to the point where she thought she was the one woman stuck in the wallpaper. By the end of the story the lonely room became a jail cell because she became fixated on the wallpaper and she couldn’t escape from it. Her world revolved around the yellow wallpaper, by the time she started seeing the woman in the wallpaper it was a fact that she had gone insane. “There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern, the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that