"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This short story is not necessarily about a crazy woman, at least not at first, but about a woman longing for liberty. This story is a narrative about the feelings, and depressions arising from the tensions of societal norms on an 18th century woman. The wallpaper design is an expression of the oppressions in her life. The figure in the wallpaper is the woman that must be liberated.
The woman in the story is supposedly sick, and she is sick in a certain way. She is sick of not having a life. …