"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story set in the late nineteenth century about a woman going insane. It begins with the narrator being diagnosed with temporary nervous depression even though it soon becomes apparent that she has post-natal depression. She is prescribed with rest and is soon forced to stay in a room with nothing to do but stare at the yellow wallpaper. This wallpaper and the subtle actions of her husband make her go insane. It ends spectacularly with the wife overthrowing her dominating husband but only with it costing her , her sanity. The act…
