The Independence Of Women, The

Part I of Essay
"The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological difficulties, and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her ailments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling to the ....

Part II of Essay
.... the repercussions that a woman faces in the care of a man. The wife loves her husband, but she has an underlying feeling that maybe his prescription of total bed rest is not working for her. The story mentions that she has an older brother who is also a physician and concurs with her husband's theory, thus leaving her no choice but to subject herself to the torment of being alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper. The young woman stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a woman behind the paper. "I didn't realize fo ....