Criticism In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Being women, they always want to be treated well; they want to be a wife, to be a mother, to have a happy family; and over all of these, they want to keep fulfilling what they passionate in. In the nineteenth century, it marks a very specific historical moment of women and their perceived ability is that the feminism is not respected. Women expect to be at home, doing chores, housekeeping and babysitting, nothing else. Charlotte Perkins Gilman realizes that there is an inequality between both sexes in the society. She “became an important early figure in American feminism” who wrote the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” which reflects to her real-life experience. She mentions about being a victimization of feminists during her time life. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one of the most famous stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which shows the reader about the narrator’s lonely feeling, her internal conflict and her desire to be treated equally as a feminist.

One of the most aspects of her writing is Gothic fiction which is expressed in narrator’s lonely feeling. She is diagnosed with “nervous condition” which has changed her

For most of her writings are about the feminists who are treated unequally in the society at this time. The story “The Yellow Paper” has reflected to her real life which is very rough throughout her entire life. She successfully combines standard “elements of Gothic fiction” by expressing the loneliness and isolation, the conflict and being impotent in fighting for herself of protagonist. According to Gilman, after three months on “rest cure” for her depression, “she came to near the borderline of utter mentally ruin” (Gilman 317). Thanks to getting advised from a friend and specialist, she went back to write. She successfully approved that the “rest cure” from the famous doctor was evil and requested him to change his treatment