The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey into Insanity "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, criticises the dominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife that pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same view is seen in her brother, who is …showed first 75 words of 908 total…

…showed last 75 words of 908 total…an ambivalent one. It both repels and fascinates. She eventually begins to see in it a motion, a purpose, and a design. As the story unfolds she shifts her attention from her desire to escape from the limitations imposed on her, onto the figure of the woman trapped behind the patterns of the yellow wallpaper. She becomes obsessed with rescuing the woman, and the wallpaper becomes the symbol of both her confinement and her liberation.