Mentally ill individuals, most prominently women, are marginalized within society. She warns the audience about the severe power imbalance between a husband and wife and the dangers of a lack of identity. Gilman uses her protagonist's circumstances in order to provide social commentary on marriage in the 19th century. She describes her husband’s controlling nature and his desire to keep her on bed rest, restricting her ability to write. The story of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, originally published in January of 1892, is told through the deteriorating mental state of a depressed woman. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him” (Gilman 650). John does not know how much I really suffer. To quote Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing.
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