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The Yellow Wallpaper

            It still amazes me that men, especially Physicians, were that ignorant to a woman's physical and mental needs back then. The narrator is obviously suffering from a form of depression, probably "Baby blues". John keeps her in this yellow wallpapered bedroom where the wallpaper expresses itself more than the narrator is allowed. John never once calls his wife by her given name. Always "darling" or "little girl". What must he think of her? This is the woman who gave him a child and still he calls her "little girl". .
             This is a very sad story. I felt that if John would have allowed the narrator to express her feelings and allowed her to do "busy work" that the narrator could have possibly pulled herself out of this hole of depression she was in. But then again, no one wants to believe that the one that you love has a mental illness. It's easy to say "you need rest" and dismiss the problem as a physical one rather than a mental one. .
             When she sees the woman in the wallpaper apparently trying to free herself this was a turning point for the narrator. Although, it was definitely in the wrong direction of mental well being. The crawling around the floor after she tore down all the wallpaper was sort of symbolic in a way. That women have to crawl on the floor out of sight of men. When John finds her and faints in her path along the wall she continues to crawl over him to reach her destination, not letting a man or any other person get in her way, were ever it was she was going.
            


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