Analysis of Yellow Wallpaper Gender played a very important role in the short story Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It symbolizes how women were viewed in the 1800s by society and, more importantly, by men. The narrator of the story believes she is suffering from a nervous disorder. Her husband being a doctor, he minimizes the situation and imposes treatment consisting of completely isolating her in a room from the outside world, as well as preventing her from being active and writing. As the narrator writes in her hidden journal, we begin to discover how special she is when she becomes obsessed with yellow wallpaper. We know the things she sees on the walls aren't there at all, but it shows readers the journey her mind takes into madness. The limitation and control over the narrator's decisions shows the domination of men over women and how her isolation by her husband caused her to lose her sanity. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper never actually shares her name, although her thoughts and experiences within the story are clear. The diary she kept could only be in the first person point of view, which helped society understand that Charlotte Perkins Gilman was using the story to express her feelings towards men, society, and Rest treatment. Cures. It's no surprise that women in the 1800s were not treated equally. She uses a narrator and her diary to create a story showing women that they need to open their eyes and realize how they are treated. The narrator's husband takes responsibility for the state and state of mind his wife was in. Readers find him very manipulative and controlling of his wife due to his high and prestigious job title. Ultimately, Gilman was trying to prove something to the women in his society, and over time we see that The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist.