"The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story with many interpretations and is a source of many reactions. One interpretation that appears often, is the idea that a woman who is not afraid of looking at things in an intangible sense is looked upon as some sort of "lunatic." This reason was sometimes a primary reason to drive a woman, not medically claimed as ill, to live in a mansion, "standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village," was a practice very popular yet very wrong. By placing this woman in this mansion, forcing her to quit her writing and all other sourc