What is wrong with the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper
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In 1892, the New England Magazine published a story called "The Yellow Wallpaper," which was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The narrator, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is suffering with a nervous disorder due to post-modem depression, which is associated with having a baby. The narrator's husband, who was a physician, forced his wife into treatments of solitude and complete bed rest. During the era in which this storyline was written such practices were considered favorable. Instead of helping the narrator with her psychological disorder, the treatments only drove her into a server depression.
With the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house out in the countryside far from the public. There she is locked up in an upstairs room, which she comes to hate and it serves only to drive her into mental depression. [The windows are barred and there are rings and things on the walls.](p.2} The walls are covered with very disgusting yellow wallpaper, being exposed to a room with yellow wallpaper is appalling and fosters only harmful visions...