The Yellow Wallpaper

This story is about a woman who is suffering from depression; however, her husband does not think she is. They moved into this house temporarily so that their other house could be fixed or something like that. She is supposed to stay home and get better while her husband goes to work. She writes while he is away, because he does not want her to. Slowly the reader sees her go through the depression, until she thinks that their are woman in the wallpaper. At the end she goes insane thinking she was in the wallpaper and got out.

This definitely is a story of self reflection. She needed to identify the wallpaper with something, so she identifies it with a human, then a woman, and finally herself. The story also deals with the subordination of woman. The husband does not take into consideration what the wife says she is feeling or what she thinks she has. He is right and that is all there is to it.