![]() ![]() This story was written to condemn the sexual politics, which make the medical treatment prescribed possible. ![]() ![]() Gilman created a very effective fictional narrative based on her personal experience with depression, and this had a strong impact on other women. The story illustrates the physical as well as the mental deterioration of women during the 19 century due to a medically prescribed treatment of being allowed to do nothing. It was published for the first time in 1892 in a New England magazine and is considered to be one of the earliest and essential feminist literary pieces in America. It focuses on several inequalities in the relation between John and his wife. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a popular literary piece for critical analysis, especially in women’s gender studies. ![]()
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