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However as the reader analyzes the narrative closer, the plot appears to be about a bright woman who possibly could be suffering from post-partum depression, who is being belittled by her family and treated like a child by her husband who controls her every move. Ironically this plot is typical of what many women experienced everyday in the late nineteenth century. An article in Short Story Criticism suggests that it possibly could be what Gilman herself may have experienced during her battle with depression ("The Yellow Wallpaper- SSC, 119). This story is about a woman's fight for her freedom from the bonds of society so that she will have the right to express what she feels and the freedom to do what she wants. .
"The Yellow Wall-Paper is told in first-person narrative through the use of journal entries. Gilman uses this method instead of typically "speaking' or thinking- the ideas of the narrator. The reader is not just reading an interior monologue. Lingo's Guide for the "The Yellow Wall-Paper- points out that the story is presented is the result of the woman's forbidden activity, the writing of a journal or dairy-like pages."" ("Guide-) The narrator's thoughts are the only thoughts is reveled to us, a result of first-person narrative. .
Lingo also burring out that the narrator states that her husband thinks her writings only provoke her "silly fancies,"" and "imaginative power and habit of story-making."" ("Guide-) That her husband, John, opposes her writing because it was not considered, to be the proper way a woman should act. Throughout the story, her sister-.
in-law, Jennie, seems a perfect example of a man's ideal woman. She acts stereotypically how a woman of that time should have acted. John tries to make his wife act that way, the way he thinks she should, the way he believes is proper and fitting for a lady. Throughout the story, John pushes his influences on his wife so hard that, he winds-up pushing her over the edge of insanity.
