ANALOGY OF THE NARRATOR Return to the wallpaper in the film site, to the Yellow Wallpaper site, or to the American Literature Survey Site.

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In the story, the woman is diagnosed as a woman with hysteria who is given recommendation of rest for a summer by her doctor. This woman parallels with Gilman and portrays a part of Gilman's life. Gilman was also given bed rest in her lifetime and felt opress by male dominance. Gilman did not want to rest in bed all day and night, she wan't to write stories and do some thing intellectual but was restricted by her doctor and husband. At this time, a woman could and would not express herself for hersake and for their beloved husband. They wanted to satisfy their husbands but did not see that bed rest would benefit them. Both the woman and Gilman felt the opression either in experience or through the story. This sort of opression lead to Gilman's literary production of "The Yellow Wallpaper."

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Return to the film narrator site, to the Yellow Wallpaper site, or to the American Literature Survey Site.

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