The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Literary Analysis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote an unspeakable story in 1892 entitled The Yellow Wallpaper. The story is generous of symbolism and was inspired by Gilmans own life struggles. This analysis of her function ordain cover some important parts of the creators life, the characters, the setting of the story, and the secret plan. Throughout the analysis will be explanations of symbols and how the author trussed her personal experiences into the story.Charlotte Perkins Gilmans work, The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that the author wrote to depict her own struggle with mental illness. In order to unfeignedly appreciate this story, it may help to know about the authors life. Born in 1860, she was the only child of Mary Finch Westcott and Frederick Beecher Perkins, a bibliothec and writer. It is said that Charlottes father abandoned his family, and, on the verge of poverty, they were forced to move around frequently (Merriman). At the age of 24, Charlotte married her stolon husband, Cha rles Watson Stetson, with whom she bore a daughter, Katharine Beecher Stetson. Shortly after giving birth, Charlotte began to suffer from spartan postpartum depression and had a flighty breakdown. She spent some epoch at a sanitorium in Pennsylvania, under the care of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell (Merriman). In 1913, Gilman wrote why I Wrote The Yellow WallpaperFor many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia and beyond. During about the trio year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to withdraw and applied the rest cure, to which a still good physique responded so promptly that he concluded that there was no... ... the characters in the story, the setting of the story, and the plot of the story. While times have changed drastically since Gilman wrote her story, it is my hope that women everywhere will read Th e Yellow Wallpaper, recognize the struggles she faced in her life, and be grateful that she chose to not accept the advice of a male physician missing her to submit to a domestic, docile, stereotypical housewife sort of life.Works CitedBooth, Allison and Kelly Mays. The Norton origin to Literature. 10th ed. New York W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.Merriman, C.D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Jalic, Inc. 2006. 27 Feb. 2015. http//www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/.Voight, Heather Symbols in the Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 2010. 27 Feb. 2015.http//www.helium.com/items/1753292-symbols-in-the-yellow-wallpaper.