The Yellow Wallpaper follows the story of a woman struggling with postpartum depression. Through out the short story the narrator describes days in her life and her condition, which progressively worsens as time continues. Due to the setting of this book, the late 1800's, the narrator isnt taken seriously when she talks about what she's experiencing. Feeling trapped in her house by her own husband, a physician, who described her condition as a slight hysterical tendency, the narrator begins to slowly lose touch of reality. The isolation and treatment by her husband slowly drives her mad and the story ends in a disturbing image of the narrator clawing at the wallpaper because she believes a woman is trapped in it. This story explores themes such as oppression and dismissal of women during the late nineteenth century.
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