"The Yellow Wallpaper" Kate Ferraro

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," it is important  to notice the relationship between the narrator and her husband. Throughout the short story, the narrator's husband, John, continually belittles her illness and has almost no concern in general. Being a physician of high standing, he assures that there is really nothing the matter. The narrator is especially disturbed by the wallpaper in her bedroom, but her husband will not take it down explaining, "after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstand, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on."The wallpaper eventually dominates the narrators imagination. By the end of the story,the narrator is hopelessly insane and convinced there are many creeping women around and that she herself came out of the wallpaper. This ending demonstrates the trapped feeling the narrator feels with her controlling husband. It is clear she attempts to become a "new woman," when she begins to keep a secret journal to relieve her mind.