"The Yellow wallpaper"

The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" loses touch with reality and the world in this story. The story begins as her husband takes her for a summer vacation to a Colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, which she thinks is haunted. Her husband, being her doctor also takes her there as treatment after being diagnosed with a nervous depression, which her treatment includes that she do almost nothing active. He forbids her from writing any of her thoughts and feelings in her journal, so she does this secretly. She complains that her husband makes fun and belittles both her illness and her own t…