The Yellow Wallpaper The narrator, being female, is suffering from a “temporary depression.” She states right from the beginning that “John is a physician, and perhaps that is the one reason I do not get well faster.” The narrator sets up the story to set a certain opinion of the problems a woman faces in the care of a man. She loves her husband and trusts him but has some weird feeling that maybe his …showed first 75 words of 813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 813 total…this story was written. Written in the ninetieth century, a woman suffering from depression was not as clearly understood as it is today, so they were treated with isolation. This I think would clearly drive a person mad. The narrator made attempts to bring to her husband’s attention what she felt was a better way of making her better but he refused to listen and ignored her wishes to involve herself in more activity.