The Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman in the late 1800s who suffers from psychological illness and her husbands treatment or lack there of. The story's alteration from the pure mind of a female, into the perspective of a disturbed woman changes what the reader sees. The entire story is told from the mind of the disturbed wife: "A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I …
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…is being controlled by her husband. The reader might begin to dislike the husband for not listening to his wife and realizing her true feelings. I think if a woman today had post pardon depression, would at least get a second doctors opinion. Since The Yellow Wallpaper was written there have been many advances in medicine. This is obvious because many women suffer from post pardon depression today and it almost never gets that severe.