The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Literary Analysis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote an amazing theme in 1892 entitled The Yellow Wallpaper. The story is full of symbolization and was inspired by Gilmans own life struggles. This analysis of her work exit cover some important parts of the authors life, the characters, the picture of the story, and the plot. Throughout the analysis will be explanations of symbols and how the author tied her individual(prenominal) experiences into the story.Charlotte Perkins Gilmans work, The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that the author wrote to try her own struggle with mental illness. In order to really appreciate this story, it may help to know about the authors life. innate(p) in 1860, she was the only child of Mary Finch Westcott and Frederick Beecher Perkins, a librarian and writer. It is state that Charlottes father abandoned his family, and, on the verge of poverty, they were forced to involve around frequently (Merriman). At the age of 24, Charlotte married her first husband, Charles Watso n Stetson, with whom she calibre a daughter, Katharine Beecher Stetson. Shortly after giving birth, Charlotte began to suffer from repellant postpartum depression and had a nervous breakdown. She spent some time at a sanitorium in Pennsylvania, under the care of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell (Merriman). In 1913, Gilman wrote Why I Wrote The Yellow WallpaperFor many grades I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some lame stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the take up known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and use the rest cure, to which a still good physique responded so rapidly that he concluded that there was no... ... the characters in the story, the setting of the story, and the plot of the story. speckle times have changed drastically since Gilman wrote her story, it is my hope that women everywhere will incline The Ye llow Wallpaper, recognize the struggles she faced in her life, and be acceptable that she chose to not accept the advice of a male physician wanting her to submit to a domestic, docile, stereotypical housewife sort of life.Works CitedBooth, Allison and Kelly Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature. tenth ed. New York W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.Merriman, C.D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Jalic, Inc. 2006. 27 Feb. 2015. http//www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/.Voight, Heather Symbols in the Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 2010. 27 Feb. 2015.http//www.helium.com/items/1753292-symbols-in-the-yellow-wallpaper.