Yellow Wallpaper Depression

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the unnamed narrator (often identifies as Jane) suffers from depression. Jane lives with her husband, John, in a secluded home with John’s sister, and the couple’s newborn son, whom Jane is not allowed to see. She is kept in the upstairs nursery and is not allowed to leave their home. Jane begins to see figures within the yellow wallpaper and soon becomes fixated on the “woman” that lives in it. The story describes a woman, Jane, with multiple personalities. Jane’s husband, her physician, does not take her seriously so Jane just obeys what he tells her to do. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression–a slight …show more content…
One of the personalities hates being in the room with the yellow color of the wallpaper. The other one would rather stay inside than going outside where everything is green and therefore prefers the color yellow. “For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow” (536). In the story, she sees women trapped behind the yellow wallpaper where at the end of the story, this woman comes out of the wallpaper and turns out to be Jane, and she starts creeping around her husband when he faints. The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in the 19th century. In this time period women did not have a voice to stand up for themselves and man had more dominant roles. If Jane’s husband had taken the time to actually listen to her instead of making assumptions, she might have had a chance of fighting against her condition. By the story taking place at that time, when women had no voice, Jane had no option but to listen to her beloved husband, who knows best and that he just wants the best for her, but causing Jane to go totally insane by the end of the