There are stories based on true events that happened in history, and The Yellow Wallpaper is not exception. The Yellow Wallpaper follows the story of a woman around the Victorian Era, where the woman was socially oppressed from society. The narrator, who is never truly mentioned by name, is trapped in the top floor of a mansion in a nursery-like room where she can only sleep and eat. She keeps a journal around and writes down whenever she is alone to prevent her husband from taking her only source of entertainment away since at the time it was forbidden for women to be smarter than men. John believes, because he is known as the best physician in the county, that he knows exactly what she needs, and that her ‘problem’ or ‘sickness’ will be over when she has fully rested. …show more content…
When all of a sudden, the narrator starts to feel worse and worse, John decides to take her to the countryside, where he states, that, “fresh air is doing you good, I feel you are getting better,” before locking her in the nursery room. Day by day, the narrator begins to describe the mansion and say things she hates the most about the mansion. Then, she mentions that the most disturbing thing about the nursery might, in fact, be a yellow wallpaper that was stripped in two sides. She explains that maybe John is right about her, father implicating that John has full control over her life. She tells the readers in her journal that the child is in the hands of Mary, which she states would and is a better mother than she could ever be. Then she explains who cleans the house, which is Jennie, John’s sister-in-law and makes the house look better than she could ever do. Every night, she begins to question the wallpaper and what is trying to communicate to her. John sees that she has gained color, and has been doing good, stating that eating and sleeping gas made her feel better. Little did they knew, that she was actually getting