"The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a story set in the late 1800's about a woman and her "nervous troubles." The story begins with a young woman and her husband going to the country for the summer. The summer retreat is supposed to allow the woman to recover from her provisional depression of an unknown cause, however her condition seems to be deteriorating instead. Throughout the story the first person narrator, which is the alleged psychotic woman, expresses her feelings about the yellow wallpaper in her room. She sees things in the wallpaper, such as, "pointless patterns" and a "creeping woman." The ending of the story is somewhat ambiguous. In the final passage the narrator makes a rather bizarre statement, "I've got out (of the wallpaper) at last...in spite of you and Jane. …