Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman often discussed for its biographical critic on the way women, but especially those suffering from mental illnesses profiled by 19th century physicians as "women's diseases", have been treated in society at the end of the 19th century (Teichler 1984: 61, Oakley 1997: 29).
In order to cure the female main character of her hysterical tendencies--a status she was diagnosed with after the birth of her son--she has been confined to the former nursery in the family's house, and undergoes a treatment in which she is forced to avoid all forms of stimuli, excitement, or activity (Gilman 1997: 1-15.). One of the main objects she interacts with during her isolation period, besides the nailed down bed and her hidden journal, is the yellow wallpaper with which the former nursery is papered (Gilman 1997: 1-15.).
The story explores how the woman's sickness worsens gradually because of forced isolation and inactivity, and portrays how her sickness focuses almost entirely on the wallpaper during this transformation (Teichler 1984: 61, Geilman 1997: 1-15.). She is absorbed by her madness while trapped

Conversations with these other characters are few, and there is nothing else the main character to do than look out the windows, secretly writing in her journal, and staring at the walls around her (Gilman 1997: 1-15.). She begins to have the subjective impression that "[t]here are things in that paper that nobody knows but [her], or ever will", and that these things are only held back by the wallpaper, at least, until she finally frees the creature by ripping apart the wallpaper and tearing it off of the wall in the final entry (Gilman 1997: