Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," is a critique of androcentric supremacy in the 19th century medical profession. The “I” as a narrative voice, whether viewed from a colonial or more modern interpretation, depicts the narrator's descent into madness and further addresses the allegory of feminist confinement in society. The story details the narrator's descent into madness. The antagonist, John, believes that it is best to take a rest cure after her pregnancy. The family spends the summer in the colonial mansion that the narrator describes as “faggot.” She is then confined to the upstairs nursery, with its barred windows, torn wallpaper and scratched floorboards. The narrator then forms the idea that another woman has been imprisoned here against her will. As a reader, we do not know if the damage described in the play was actually caused by the narrator herself rather than by a previous prisoner. The narrator spends many journal entries obsessively describing the room's wallpaper—its "yellow" scent, its "dizzying" layout, the way it leaves some of the yellow on the skin of anyone who touches it and them. missing spots. The narrator describes how time spent inside the room creates the mirage of the wallpaper seeming to mutate and transform in the moonlight – the beauty of the story. With no visual stimulus other than the yellow wallpaper, the pattern and designs become very intriguing to the narrator. The narrator soon begins to see an entity in the pattern and is eventually convinced that a woman is crawling on all fours behind the pattern. Understanding that she must free the woman from the wallpaper, the narrator begins to peel off the middle of the paper ......o the doctor's will. On the author's personal experiences from “The Life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman”: “She fell into a state of deep depression and consulted Dr. S. Weir Mitchell who prescribed his famous rest cure. It was her experience of Mitchell's treatment that inspired her to write The Yellow Wallpaper. Thus, the degree of depth of the “I” as narrator is considerably amplified in the amalgamation of her own personal memories. In conclusion, it is the society in which they live which contributes to their states of repression. Perhaps the limitations of the gender roles that Gilman writes about women and how they feel trapped without control over the most apparent aspects of their lives. Although freedom can be achieved in a somewhat unconventional way – “creeping” – because of its absurdity it shows how inaccessible this possibility is to women...