YELLOW WALLPAPER
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, written in 1892, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), was an account of her experience with depression and a chilling. ... Gilman was able to write “The Yellow Wallpaper”, because of her experience with mental illness. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a feminist text, telling a story about women’s struggles against male thinking. ... The symbolism of the wallpaper is an escape from reality, because she said, “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. ... Many readers have asked, Why Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”? ... The thing that motivated Gilman to write “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to escape from being in her house, doing anything, because being away from writing worse her condition. ... At the time that Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she was suffering of nervous breakdown. ... In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, we can see how she refuges herself with the wallpaper, because every time she felt alone, there was the wallpaper. ... According to Kelly Gilbert, the writer of “the Yellow Wallpaper”: An autobiography of emotions by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “ When the story first came out in 1892 the critics saw “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a description of female insanity and mayhem instead of a story that reveals society’s values”.