The Yellow Wallpaper

The "Yellow Wallpaper" is an account of a woman who sinks into postpartum depression after having a child. The reader is privy to the gradual descent into madness of an otherwise normal woman. The central character has difficulty in separating her emotional needs from society's expectations of women's roles.
Historically treated as property and subhuman, women have subsequently tried to overcome this gender bias. The character in "The yellow wallpaper," is taught from an early age to be subservient. Women of her era were supposed to behave as sweet, docile creatures, and the only cares the…