“The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkin Gilman shows how women would get mistreated. Her husband will not get her the help she needs for her mental illness. She still shows respect to her husband because he is the man in the family. This is how many women were during this time. With her desire to write she has to do it when her husband wasn’t home. During this time women almost felt like slaves and not wanted. Many women in this time did not get treated like they should. The only responsibilities they had were to clean, keep up with the garden, and cook. The men were the providers for the family and voted. Pretty much women had no say so in what actually went on in the outside world. Safe to say now women have the rights as men. In the story John does not give his wife the proper attention. He keeps her in a room with horrible wallpaper. She says that it confuses her and she never knows the time of the day. If John is a doctor then why doesn’t he help his wife with her mental illness? This just shows that he really doesn’t care for her and that he thinks it’s best if she is not part of the outside world. Depression is the main reason for Charlotte’s insanity. She has no connection to the outside world so she feels she is not wanted. The only thing that she has to keep her occupied is he writing, which she can only do while John is gone. The wallpaper makes her feel confused and crazy. Towards the end of the story she mentions that the wallpaper isn’t as confusing and doesn’t make her go insane. Life was tough for women during this horrible time period. I wonder sometimes what life would be like if we still lived in that time. What if women still couldn’t vote or run for an elective official? There would be many things that would be missing in this world if women never had a say so. In my opinion this world would be hell if only men would have the final say so.