The Pygmalion Effect is when ones expectations are met. This is usually between a coach and player, teacher and student, parent and child, doctor and patient or even ones own expectations. In the play "Pygmalion", we see the teacher/student relationship. In "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Pygmalion Effect is seen in two relationships; the doctor patient relationship and ones own expectations. However while the play Pygmalion supports the Pygmalion Effect, Yellow Wallpaper repels it.
In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" a women (presumed to be Charlotte Perkins Gilman),…
