The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis

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Imprisoned in her own home, the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman slips away to the brink of insanity as she suffers from depression. Although the narrator's exact illness is never stated in the text, evidence supports she had postpartum depression that developed into postpartum psychosis. The narrator shows symptoms of postpartum depression and psychosis such as her nervousness around her own baby, rapid mood swings, and visual, olfactory, and auditory hallucinations about the wallpaper. Her physician husband, John, holds all control over the narrator. He prescribes a rest cure as treatment that enforces the narrator to sit in the confinement of her room. She is treated as an inferior and remains physically and