Sliding Towards Madness in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” relays to the reader something more than a simple story of a woman at the mercy of the limited medical knowledge in the late 1800’s. Gilman creates a character that expresses real emotions and a psyche that can be examined in the context of modern understanding. “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written in first person and first published in 1892 in the …showed first 75 words of 3148 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3148 total…and wrote this story in hopes of helping others in a similar situation and also to help heal a dying soul, that of her own. (3127) Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Anthology of American Literature Volume II: Realism to the Present, Sixth edition. Ed. George McMichael. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. 671-682. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’” The Forerunner, October 1913. (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/ wallpaper/whywrote.html)