"The Yellow Wallpaper" Essay.

Looking back at women's role in society, women in the 1800s were usually portrayed as inferior and submissive to their husbands. "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story about a woman who is psychologically ill and her husband's treatment of her. The story opens up with the family moving into a summer home to cure the narrator's illness. The story presents itself to the reader with the idea that the house is more of a cage than a home that a person would feel comfortable living in. The narrator is in the present predicament of oppression, which symboliz…