Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Connecticut. Her father abandoned Charlotte’s mother to raise her and her sibling alone. As a result of this she moved around a lot, which caused her education to suffer. In 1884 she married Charles Stetson and the couple had a daughter named Katherine. Sometime during her marriage she got severe depression and had a number of treatments for it. These treatments are believed to inspire “The Yellow Wall-Paper”. She is known for her fiction writing but she also wrote nonfiction-promoting women. One year after her second husbands death in 1934, Gilman found out she had inoperable breast cancer. She didn’t wait for the cancer to kill her as on August 17, 1935 Gilman
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In the beginning the women seems normal just depressed and annoyed with the fact that her husband wouldn’t let her leave. The women only mentions the fact that she cant see her baby once which surprises me because you think she would be more focused on the baby. In the beginning you think she maybe she just doesn’t like the wallpaper. Then after she doesn’t talk about anything but the wallpaper I start to think that maybe there is something wrong with her. I’m surprised when she brings up the wallpaper to her husband who is a physician and he doesn’t say anything about it. Then as soon as she said this “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.” I knew that something was truly wrong with her. Her visions of seeing things in the wall seem to change in the weirdest ways. I think when she says this “like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” That is when she has gone to far and lost her mind. Somehow though she continues to get worse as she believes the wallpaper changes under the moonlight. When she mentions that there is a woman creeping behind the wallpaper I know there has to be more to her madness than what I previous thought. When she says the woman is shaking the wallpaper to get out that’s when you realize she feels trapped and for some reason has latched on to this paper as her escape. This is proven
In the beginning the women seems normal just depressed and annoyed with the fact that her husband wouldn’t let her leave. The women only mentions the fact that she cant see her baby once which surprises me because you think she would be more focused on the baby. In the beginning you think she maybe she just doesn’t like the wallpaper. Then after she doesn’t talk about anything but the wallpaper I start to think that maybe there is something wrong with her. I’m surprised when she brings up the wallpaper to her husband who is a physician and he doesn’t say anything about it. Then as soon as she said this “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.” I knew that something was truly wrong with her. Her visions of seeing things in the wall seem to change in the weirdest ways. I think when she says this “like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” That is when she has gone to far and lost her mind. Somehow though she continues to get worse as she believes the wallpaper changes under the moonlight. When she mentions that there is a woman creeping behind the wallpaper I know there has to be more to her madness than what I previous thought. When she says the woman is shaking the wallpaper to get out that’s when you realize she feels trapped and for some reason has latched on to this paper as her escape. This is proven