Effect of Oppression in "The Yellow Wallpaper""The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the self-told story of a woman approaching madness . The story examines the change in the protagonist's character over the course of three months of confinement in a room with yellow wallpaper and examines how she copes with her "illness". Since the story is written from a feminist perspective, it becomes evident that the story focuses on the effect of society's structure on women and how society's values ​​destroy women's individuality. In "Yellow Wallpaper" the heroine's attempt to liberate her individuality leads to a mental breakdown. From the beginning of the story it becomes clear that the protagonist has no voice. Her husband is very controlling and oppressive as she has to ask him for permission to do anything. He forbids her from writing and seeing the people she loves, assuming that he is the only one who knows what is best for her. The fact that he is a doctor emphasizes that he is a man of power and that it would be impossible for the narrator to oppose the treatment he prescribed for her. Furthermore, she does not try to disobey him, but rather hides her true feelings within herself and suppresses her emotions around him, so that he does not send her away for more serious treatment. Even though her husband treats her with what appears at first glance to be love, it becomes clear that to him she is nothing more than a piece of property. Every time he speaks to her, he asks her to get better for his own good and that of the children, and only then mentions his interests. He does not think she has normal feelings or worries and attributes her behavior to mild nervous depression. He does not see his true suffering as he believes “there is no reason to suffer” (574). He could never have understood that a woman can be dissatisfied with the role imposed on her by society. Although the heroine recognizes that her condition is caused by something other than John's theory, she is too scared to voice her opinion. After being isolated in a room for three months, the heroine slowly begins to realize that her depression is caused by the oppression of her feelings. Husband. She acknowledges that she sometimes gets "unreasonably angry at John" and later wishes he had a room of his own (573).