Throughout her time at the house, she starts to notice more and more of the wallpaper. She describes its presence as sickly and its yellow smell, and its bizarre and disturbing patterns. With nothing else to see and do, she is taken by the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her room. Secretly, the woman maintains a journal that she is writing on dead papers. Her husband always has control over her life, forces her to follow his practices, and ignores the fact that she is suffering. She isn’t allowed to socialize, to touch a pen or paper and all of this is mandated by her husband who is also her doctor. Just after delivering a baby, she is sent to this Mansion to spend a basic life. “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the story of a woman who shared the same fate as many did at the time. This was a common practice at the time and to make people aware of the effects of this ‘Cure’ she wrote her most famous work, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. But this cure did little to ease her state of mind. After going through 3 months of this horrific cure, she returned back to her house. This ‘Cure’ involved her being quarantined inside a house, with no social interactions and she wasn’t allowed to touch a pen or a brush (her forms of expression) to make her life as much a domestic life as possible. In 1887, a doctor suggested that she should go and try the Rest Cure to combat these feelings. After delivering a baby girl she named Katherine, she suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety, which was relatively unknown at the time. In the year of 1884, Charlotte Perkins Gilman married a Doctor named Houghton Gilman. What seemed like a simple story set in the late 1800s evolved into something much more and it was beyond any expectations I had of it. Looking for the shortest one to read, I picked it up and I was so glad I did! The short story left me with more questions than answers. I had never heard of “The Yellow Wallpaper” before I stumbled upon a reading list of novels to read during the quarantine period.
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