Set in the late 19th century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story The Yellow Wallpaper consists of diary entries written by an unnamed female protagonist. The narrator has been taken to a country home by her husband, John, who is a doctor and has prescribed enforced rest so that she can recuperate from what appears to be postpartum depression. The room in which the narrator is isolated has yellow wallpaper, which the narrator becomes obsessed with. The narrator begins to believe that there is a woman trapped in the wallpaper—an obsession linked to both the deterioration of her own mental health and her simultaneous growing resistance to the patriarchal society that has oppressed her.