Sanity for Independence A look at “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by C.P Gilman The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a woman’s cry for freedom. It is about a creative woman whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her, in order to keep her within society's norms of what a wife is supposed to act like only lead to her mental destruction. He is more …showed first 75 words of 1583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1583 total…He could not understand why she began to react violently and angrily to the environment in which she was placed. Only by confronting her fears of what society and her husband would think about her, did she allow herself to become free. Once she achieved her independence, she realized that she did not need to rely on anyone else but herself for her survival. By refusing to be submissive, she traded her sanity for independence.