Yellow Wallpaper Obstacles

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman was a battling writer in her time during the 1900’s and The Yellow Wallpaper was a piece of her writing that actually was sampled from her own life. She suffered with depression after her first marriage and shortly after having a baby. This writing also give a glimpse of how Women did not have any type of authority in their marriage or of themselves. Gilman turned to writing and keeping a journal as a way to relive the stress build up that she accumulated over time, though she was not allowed and had to keep it hidden. The writing in Jane’s journal was her only mental escape from the room and the reality of her life. She was controlled by her husband as well as her brother making it twice as hard to talk to either one of them being that both were very respectable doctors.
The fact that the women did not or were not allowed to have a voice in pretty much anything let alone keep a journal making it again harder for …show more content…
Jane is in a battle with herself the main obstacle that she faces is not only her husband but herself as well. She has to options that both make her question everything. Does she go against her “role” in society, as a women the only way of life that she’s ever known and was taught or does he go against she husband the only one that she’s supposed to believe and trust in. But because she doesn’t feel the same about her husband and his judgment because he does not listen to her. She starts to look at him from a different view, the view from behind the wallpaper. She is trapped at the feelings that are taking over her she’s taken from her new role as a mother and forced to hear and watch another women raise her child and for any mother that in itself would drive any women