The woman behind the wallpaper

<Tab/>Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", is an account of a mentally disturbed woman and her descend into madness. The story not only depicts the woman's struggle with mental illness, it also displays the struggle women faced in a male dominated society around the 1890's.
<Tab/>The prescription from her husband, John, a practicing physician, is that she goes on "bed rest" to treat her condition. John rarely takes her anxieties seriously, almost shows a lack of concern, and sums up her aliment as, "nervous depression" (330). He also forbid…