Review Essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a distraught young woman who is confined to an attic room by her husband, who is also a doctor. The room is an old nursery with hideous yellow wallpaper and strong, thick bars on the windows. The relationship between the husband and wife in the Yellow Wallpaper is a bit manipulative and controlling on the husband’s part. Him being a doctor, her being a woman, and it taking place in the nineteenth century are all things that develop their relationship. John is a physician who thinks since he is a doctor he knows what’s best for his wife.