The Yellow Obsession Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story about the imprisonment of a woman and how she is driven insane by the wallpaper in her room. The woman writes this story after being diagnosed with hysteria after giving birth to her baby in the early 1900's. Her husband moves them to a colonial mansion where she can recover. The woman becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper and she begins to act deranged. &…

…Tab/>The yellow wallpaper was her support throughout her stay but it also drove her crazy. She first described the yellow wallpaper as just being ugly. As the woman began to analyse it more she began see different figures within it. The wallpaper began to consume her and caused her to act erratic. The wallpaper caused her insanity but she was also driven mad by the restraints that society had placed on her.