Who Is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Struggle In The Yellow Wallpaper

The reappear of women’s voices

In late 18th century, “Captain industry”, such as John.D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and J.P.Morgan, started to lose their “presidency” in the United State, the era of laissez-faire end; and the era of progressivism began when Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president of the United State. Because of the laissez-faire market in early 18th century, which means no regulation, needed a great deal of workers, women started to go to work in business institutions. By 1900, women made up more than 18 percent of labors in the whole country. However, under the influences of male chauvinism, the society still considered women as less strength and intelligent than men, and held the opinion that men were superior to women. Women were ineligible to vote, their rights were undermined, and they

Jean 397), “The Yellow Wallpaper”, questions gender inequality in a male chauvinistic society, and wishes to save other women from androcentric persecution. Gilman supports her claims that women have to rebel to men’s control in order to escape the persecution from male chauvinism by depicting a woman enduring her husband repressive “rest cure” to her “sickness” and finally breaks away from this prescribed remedy though her own resistance. The author’s purpose is to challenge society’s traditional way of treating women in order to alter their role in the family and society. Gilman exposes and protests male chauvinism, which suggests that men are superior to women in ability and intelligence, challenges women’s traditional role in society, and seeks to save other women from the same kind of persecution by fictionalizing her own experience of rebelling against her husband’s oppressive treatment in her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. This paper will examine how the heroine of the story escapes from her husband’s control and the harm that male chauvinism bring to a