Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper -- short story analysis

If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nil the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do? (Gilman). Many women in the 1800s and 1900s faced hardship when it came to standing up for themselves to their fathers, brothers and then husbands. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the story, is get hitched with to physician, who rented a house for the summer to nurse her back to health after(prenominal) her husband think she has neurasthenia but actually suffers from postpartum depression. He suggested the rest cure. She should non be doing any sort of mental of major physical activity, her further job was to relax and not worry about anything. Charlotte was a author and missed writing. The Yellow Wallpaper is significant to literature in the sense that, the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman addresses the issue of the rest cure that Dr. George Miller presc ribed for patients especially to women with neurasthenia, is ineffective and leads to severe depression. This paper in...