Post number 8

The short story “ The Yellow paper” by Charlotte Perkins has a mysterious and dark feeling. In the story the narrator figured out that she has depression but her husband would not believe her and told her to stay in her room and she will get better like that. Men were the more dominant figures back than and women were submissive so she listened to her husband and did just that. Staying in the room got her even more paranoid and thought that the picture that was hung in the wall was herself. She feels that the picture is her trapped inside and she tears the picture apart because she wants to feel free. Her husband make her depression more severe by putting her to stay in the room by herself and to her thoughts when he should have loved her by taking actions that would help with her depression and not just saying that he loves her. In the end she starts hating her husband while he starts regretting putting her in the room by herself like it was a jail cell.