The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds the mansion to be "a haunted house" and still she thought it had something "queer" about it. This estate and her environment have much to do with this woman's fate. The woman just had a baby, so most of her depression could come from this big event in her life but the baby is only mentioned a few times near the beginning of the story. After she settles in the new house, the yellow wallpaper starts to bother her, which is a key turning point in this woman's life. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is symbolic for the main character's sanity and her entrapment, physically and mentally.
As the story progresses, so does the main character. The main character that speaks in first person, believes that she is sick. John, her husband, as well as her brother are both physicians. They two believe she is sick. John on the other hand treats his wife with an almost demeaning attitude, calling her "little girl" and "little goose". He treats her as a child at times, plus doesn't really listen to her. John prescribes the narrators whole day, from morning to night. She is not even allowed to hold her child because it causes too much intellectual stimulation. John believes that too much stimulation can make her condition worse. When she writes in her journal, most of her emotions come out on the paper and she tells herself how she really feels. The narrator calls the paper "dead paper" because she knows that she will be the only one reading her own notes. Writing her thoughts down onto paper lets her communicate her emotions that her husband will not let her express in words in fear of her condition.
When the key character settles into her room, she describes the wallpaper in different ways.
