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The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by theAmericanwriter Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January1892 inThe New England Magazine. The Yellow Wallpaper is regardedas animportant early work of American feminist literature,illustratingattitudes in the 19th century toward women's physicaland mentalhealth. Presented in the first person, The YellowWallpaper is acollection of journal entries written by a woman(Jane) whosephysician husband (John) has confined her to theupstairs bedroomof a house he has rented for the summer. She isforbidden fromworking and has to hide her journal from him, so shecan recuperatefrom what he calls a "temporary nervous depression –a slighthysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women inthatperiod.[2] The windows of the room are barred, and there is agateacross the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to controlheraccess to the rest of the house. The story depicts the effectofconfinement on the narrator's mental health and her descentintopsychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessedbythe pattern and color of the wallpaper. "It is thestrangestyellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all theyellow thingsI ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, butold foul, badyellow things. But there is something else about thatpaper – thesmell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is likeis thecolor of the paper! A yellow smell." In the end, she imaginesthereare women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaperandcomes to believe she is one of them. She locks herself in theroom,now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave whenthesummer rental is up. "For outside you have to creep on theground,and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I cancreepsmoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in thatlongsmooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."