The narrator’s declining mental health is reflected through the characteristics of the house she is trapped in and her husband, while trying to protect her, is actually destroying her. The Yellow Wallpaper brilliantly illustrates this philosophy. Gilman once wrote, “Women’s subordination will only end when women lead the struggle for their own autonomy, thereby freeing man as well as themselves because man suffers from the distortions that come from dominance, just as women are scarred by the subjugation imposed upon them” (Lane 5). The Yellow Wallpaper presents the tragic story of a woman’s descent into depression and madness. Literature of the period often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. The Yellow Wallpaper – A Descent into Madness In the nineteenth century, women in literature were often portrayed as submissive to men.
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