The Yellow WallpaperIn 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper". The story is written in the first person in the form of twelve diary entries, as if the reader is reading the author's actual diary. This style allows the reader to understand what the narrator is experiencing. It centers on a young woman who, after having a baby, doesn't relish the role of wife and mother. So she is diagnosed with a nervous condition and “sentenced” to a rest cure. The narrator is essentially imprisoned in her room without mental stimulation or any creative outlet, forcing her to turn to the yellow wallpaper in her room for release. The wallpaper is the main symbol of the story and represents its sense of entrapment. As the narrator descends into madness, her obsession with the wallpaper increases, she becomes one with the wallpaper, and sees herself becoming stronger. The obsession with the wallpaper increases and she descends into madness. idleness of body and mind”; it is sheltered in a former nursery with yellow wallpaper (MacPike). In this room you will have to sleep, get fresh air and take tonics, nothing else, including no mental stimulation. The wallpaper is the only dominant feature of the room, she describes it as “revolting: an impure, smoldering yellow,…a tint of sickly sulphur” (Gilman 438). The color yellow usually means something sunny, bright, cheerful, but in this case it seems to propose illness, as if the wallpaper predicts the narrator's impending madness. He writes, “This document seems to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (Gilman 439). Due to the lack of mental stimulation, the narrator rapidly...... center of paper......lee. "The Environment as Psychopathological Symbolism in 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'." American Literary Realism 1870-1910 8.3 (Summer 1975): 286-288. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. Network. March 7, 2012.Montgomerie, Anne. "'The yellow wallpaper.'." "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Ed. Catherine J. New York: Routledge, 2004. 82.Saxton, Dolores F., Patricia Mary Nugent, and Phyllis K. Pelikan. Mosby's Comprehensive Nursing Review. 10th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1981. Print.Quawas, Rula. "A New Woman's Journey into Madness: Descent and Return into the Yellow Background." AUMLA 105 (May 2006): 35-53. Rpt. in nineteenth-century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. vol. 228. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center. Network. March 7. 2012.