Yellow Wallpaper Thesis

Mental disorders are extremely prominent in today’s society and need to be carefully handled. Depression is a very serious disorder, and doctors need to take proper care of their patients, which is clearly not the case in “The Yellow Wall-paper”. The narrator in this short story is subject to extended free time and progressively slips out of reality day by day while writing in her journal. This transition from reality to fantasy in the narrator is due to doctoral neglect and marital control as the inattention and disbelief of serious mental illness by John in “The Yellow Wall-paper” is what caused the narrator to slip out of reality and fall into psychosis.
Malpractice in the medical world can be often fatal to patients, as incorrect diagnoses

She presents all the symptoms of classic depression such as major fatigue, hypersomnia and insomnia, and she has constant feelings of guilt every day as she expresses in her journals and yet John “fails” to see it. The narrator shows these symptoms through her writing as she writes “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time” (Gilman 5). Her journal is a cry for help, a cry for someone to listen to her that something is really wrong, but everyone fails to answer the cry. When she is told by John that she is most certainly getting better, she discredits him and even says “’better in body perhaps-‘ I began, and stopped short…” (Gilman 7). If she had continued, she would have explained that she is not better at all, at least not mentally. But she stops short when John looks at her reproachfully. John continually neglects the signs that his wife is not progressing but rather regressing, relapsing into a horrible

She presents all the symptoms of classic depression such as major fatigue, hypersomnia and insomnia, and she has constant feelings of guilt every day as she expresses in her journals and yet John “fails” to see it. The narrator shows these symptoms through her writing as she writes “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time” (Gilman 5). Her journal is a cry for help, a cry for someone to listen to her that something is really wrong, but everyone fails to answer the cry. When she is told by John that she is most certainly getting better, she discredits him and even says “’better in body perhaps-‘ I began, and stopped short…” (Gilman 7). If she had continued, she would have explained that she is not better at all, at least not mentally. But she stops short when John looks at her reproachfully. John continually neglects the signs that his wife is not progressing but rather regressing, relapsing into a horrible