The Yellow Wallpaper An Inside look "The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological problems, and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling to the country for the summer for the healing powers of being away from writing which just seems to worsen her condition. Upon reading this intense description of an almost prison like prescription for overcoming "temporary nervous depression" the reader is permeated with the idea the men are nothing more than the wardens in the lives of women. Gilman d