Finding Freedom in The Yellow Wallpaper :: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Finding Freedom in The Yellow w all in allpaper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of a cleaning lady with psychological difficulties whose husbands prescribed treatment of her mental illness sends her into insanity. The so-called treatment consists of the Rest Cure as developed by the renowned Dr. Weir Mitchell, which includes complete bed rest, no work, and no emotional or corporal stimulus - an enforced idleness of body, mind, and spirit. The husband, John, takes complete control of all decisions on behalf of his wife concerning her living arrangements, social encounters, and medical treatment. Her mental dysfunction is yet exacerbated to the point of complete insanity by Johns prescription of idleness and defense team of mental stimulation. The woman in the story wants to get well and makes several(prenominal) suggestions to John to patron her in healing, however, John consistently refuses all of her requests and down-pl ays her illness. The woman in this story knows that she is non quite mentally well. She believes that she only suffers from atypical nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency. She believes that her case is not serious The womans husband, John, is a physician and does not really believe that she is ill. With all good intentions, he controls her life and makes all decisions. He believes that he eer knows what is best for her, no matter what she wants or desires, or what she believes may help her to heal. Several times throughout the story the woman must explosive charge to put away her writings before she is caught for John believes that she is given to flights of foresee and imagination and must rest her mind. John believes that his plan of treatment leave cure her mild case of mental illness, no matter what she feels give help her to recover. He dismisses her suggestions as unimportant and trivial. His wife wanted to occlusive in the downstairs room where there were roses on the window and sensibly curtains, but John decided that the upstairs bedroom was best for her, so that was where she stayed. When she t honest-to-god John that she did not believe that she was getting well in the old house and that she wanted to go home, he told her that they must stay the closing of the three weeks. She wanted to visit with her Cousin Henry and Julia, and John would not allow her to visit for she would not be able to handle such(prenominal) a visit.