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A woman is suffering from what her physician husband calls "nervous depression", and ultimately deteriorates into full-blown psychosis by the end

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The short story is about a mentally ill woman who has a husband called John. They live in a big old house somewhere in a small town in America. There is a yellow wallpaper in her bedroom that drives her mad due to its inconsistent pattern. Later on in the story, she discovers a woman trapped behind the wallpaper.

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The story is written in first-person, and the events take place in a chronological order.The narrative style is through a diary/journal the main character is writing.

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The language is rather old-fashioned, with a somewhat complex diction. The tone is light in the beginning, but as the main character starts to suspect something is up with the wallpaper, the tone becomes more stressed and eerie. The imagery is kind of vivid, the wallpaper is depicted in a very elaborate way, and the world outside is pictured as green.

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The main characters include the woman keeping the diary, her physician husband, John, that treats her nervous depression, and Jeannie, Johns sister and the womans caretaker. They're spending the summer at an ancestral house.

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Strained from the woman POV; he tells her she needs to rest and not do too much while she herself feels as if she would benefit more from "working" ("I sometimes fancy in my condition, If I had less oppression and more society and stimulus..."). At the end with so much leisure time and nothing to do with it she goes mad and blames him partly for it.

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Narrator, John, Jennie, and the women behind the wallpaper who are a symbol for the narrator.

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The story is written like a diary or a journal. She writes about her feelings and thoughts, as well as her everyday life. The story is chronological and is written from a first person perspective.

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The language is old fashioned, almost Brittish-like, except for the word choices which proves that the story actually is American. The story is descriptive, but at the same time it jumps past different events.

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The story is about a mentally ill woman who lives in a house with her physician/husband. She is obviously not well, and get's obsessed with a yellow wallpaper in her room. She tries to hide her mania by keeping it a secret, which paradoxically makes her seem even more troubled. The story ends with her tearing down the wallpaper, something that causes John to faint.

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Isolation doesn't do good, and mental illnesses are real, not a fiction of your imagination, as John makes the main character's mental state out to be.
Psychological thriller, horror

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It feels like the story takes place in the countryside somewhere in America since they live in a big house far away from a neighborhood. The room where the protagonist stays seems to be a nursery for children.

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A woman, husband and brother thinks she has a nervous depression, she does not believe  she is mentally ill. 

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A woman, husband and brother thinks she has a nervous depression, she does not believe  she is mentally ill. 

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In her room during a longer period maybe three months, writing in her diary which she isn't allowed to doe. Almost never leaves the mansion.

John - husband

Brother

John's sister - Jenny, also looks at the wallpaper

The women behind the wallpaper, and women who crawl in the garden

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She goes from being curious and disturbed by it, to terrified as she starts seeing shapes and a woman moving under, to finally believing that she originated from it herself.

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John feels slightly manipulative and controlling, but still loving and caring. In the beginning she does not fully agree with him on what she should do to get better, and in the end she feels scared of him due to multiple reasons.

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She goes full on Natalie Portman in Black Swan

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Gilman herself suffered depression and was told to go home and engage in as little brain stimuli as possible, and she did, for three months until she felt herself going madder and madder by the second. Gilman wrote the story as a way to prevent other women from going crazy due to following a doctors non-effective orders.

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John, narrator, Jennie, wall-woman (not really a character?  or is she?), Mary, the baby

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John, narrator, Jennie, wall-woman (not really a character?  or is she?), Mary, the baby

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In the beginning, she does not like the wallpaper at all, but later on she stars to get fascinated by it. The wallpaper, and the women behind it, is also a symbol of her life.

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1st person person perspective (written in a journal, includes feelings, thoughts, events), told chronological order

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1st person person perspective (written in a journal, includes feelings, thoughts, events), told chronological order

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The wallpaper comes to life at night. The women represent other women feeling trapped in their marriage, just like the protagonist.

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In the end the narrator finally understands that the woman behind the wallpaper has been herself, all along.

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the author is trying to say that thinking of women’s natural state as fundamentally passive and lacking and blaming ”nervous depression” on women's creative or intellectual outlets is fundamentally wrong and harmful , and will never happen if the mentally ill person is a man. In this way, the message is also one of feminism.

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The author wants to bring forward the importance of awareness towards mental illness.

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The story is written in first-person in a chronological manner, but the tense shifts between present tense and imperfect

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It's a very isolated house and a very isolated room, and this mirrors and reinforces the narrators emotions.

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We thought of it as her murdering him, since she has to creep over him several times, not just once before he wakes up