The Yellow Wallpaper In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator and her husband move to a colonial mansion for three months in order to help the narrator get better. She moves upstairs in this horrid room with yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story she studies the wallpaper because she isn’t allowed out of the room that much because her husband, John, a physician, says that it is best that …showed first 75 words of 1330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1330 total…the realization that in fact, his wife is nuts. In conclusion, everyone experiences obstacles in their life, and all have a different approach in which they attack the obstacle. Some are more effective than others are. The narrator was much more effective than John was because she had time to analyze the problem and then do something about it. Where as John would pretty much just leave it be and hope it eventually went away.