The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Gilman

The Yellow Wall-paper is definitely about Charlotte Gilman’s real life. The character John must be her husband, which is a doctor.  Sadly, her brother is also a doctor and agrees with John that there is nothing wrong with her as far as being sick that the only thing that is wrong is her mental state of mind. She does not agree obviously. But since they are both of high standing she feels that no one else would believe her if she tried to argue with their assumption so she just keeps quite about it. Her husband has her on medicines every hour. She feels very sleepy after taking them. She knows that she is not allowed to work until she gets better. She still wrote some in spite of them but says that it does exhaust her. The house that they live in sounds like a mansion, I guess due to her husband’s doctor pay. It is gated and is surrounded by little houses that the servants live in. There is a huge garden too. She says that the room that she lives in is not decorated too well though. The wallpaper is missing and looks like a little boys room. For some reason she talks about that wallpaper bothering her a whole lot. Apparently it is only a three month rental that they are living in so her husband does not feel it would be worth renovating it since they will only be there a short period of time for her to get better. It sounded towards the end that she had a little more than a nervous issue. She thought that she came out of the wallpaper! That is a little creepy to me. Hopefully if this ended up being the case for the true person it was about that she got the help that she needed.