Illness in "the Yellow Wallpaper"

Illness in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story about a woman with tuberculosis. It was wrote by cherrie parkins gilmot. She was a feminist who also died from tuberculosis. The story very closes parallels the authors life and times. She lived in America in the eighteenth century when men were kings and women were slaves.

The main character's name is also Cherrie and she lives with a violent and domination man. He keeps her locked in the basement while he experiments on her physically and ends up killing her because he kills her he is never put in jail. Instead when she escapes, he faints and we never hear what happens after that.

The couple live in a mansion that at first seems haunted but is actually all apart of the Cherrie's mind. She imagines the whole thing: the hedges, the bars, the gates that lock.

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity--but that would be asking too much of fate!

Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.

Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.

This quote is long and it shows that the house was all in her head. The tuberculosis slowly drives her mad and deteriorated her to the point of insanity. She too should die, but she doesn't.

That is the story of the yellow wallpaper.