lpaper is the woman imprisoned in marriage, unable to express herself, and feeling more and more the claustrophobia of marriage.
Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, and she died in 1935. She worked as a commercial artist after studying design. Her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Gilman shared with her illustrious relative a concern for social justice and the plight of women. Her concerns and interests are apparent in "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the story gives voice directly to the woman trapped in a marriage and reacting to the depression of childbirth.
The protagonist speaks through her journal, and from the beginning it is clear that she is treated as someone who needs to be cared for and protected to the point where she has little choice in her own destiny. Her husband and sister-in-law do not want her to write i
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