Gilman’s short story is one of my favourite narratives in American literary history. Within a rather frame, she manages to successfully depict the confinement women can feel in marriage and the dangers in diminishing female mental health issues as hysteria (she suffered from a wrongly diagnoses post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter). The protagonist in the story is confined in a nursery due to her rest cure, but also within her patriarchal marriage. With nothing to stimulate her mind, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the room and eventually escapes through descend into madness.