The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is composed of an assortment of diary entries written in the first person by a woman who was confined to a bedroom her husband is a doctor who believes she is suffering from temporary nervous depression, when in reality she is suffering from postpartum depression. He prescribes a “rest cure”. The woman remains anonymous throughout the story. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her in the room and engages in some outrageous imaginings towards the wallpaper. Gilman's story depicts women's struggle for independence and individuality at the rise of feminism, as well as a reflection of her life and experiences. During that time, mental illness and depression were not generally understood. The outspoken women were diagnosed with hysteria and placed on bed rest. The woman gradually goes mad as she is forced to rest in bed all hours of the day. It is a criticism of a medical practice created exclusively for women, which is why it is considered a feminist story. She was thought to be delicate and prone to emotional outbursts. The story explains that bed rest and opinions that complement that practice are what make women hysterical. Gilman's narrative supports the slow development into madness and the growing frustration that accompanies it. With each entry the woman wrote, it was evident how the mental pain she had endured was taking over her mind and behavior as the days passed. «This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, which is particularly irritating, because you can only see it in certain lights, and then not clearly. But in the places where it's not faded and where the sun is just like that, I can see a stra... the center of the paper... is: The yellow background." Associated content. Web. allpaper.html?cat=38> .Greene, Gretehen Lynn. ""The Yellow Wallpaper"" Faculty Staff.%20Greene%2CLeed.htm>.Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper Editorial." .com Web.charlotte.html>.Moore, Dolores. "Feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper - Where KnowledgeRules" 16 August 2008. Web. women's rights>. Johnson, Greg. "Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Anger and Redemption in ''The YellowWallpaper.'' Studies in short fiction. 26 (1989): 521-530.