In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator writes in a diary about her life at a vacation house for which she lived at for three months. Through the uses of tone and imagery, Stetson portrays the deteriorating mental state of the narrator throughout the course of the story. At the beginning of the story, the narrator’s writing is sprinkled with sarcasm, portraying a more light tone. This is aided by the narrator’s willingness to oblige with her husband’s questionable orders to isolate herself in a distasteful nursery room atop the home. Despite the narrator’s request for further aid, her husband John simply dubs her condition as a “nervous depression”, and it can be cured with lots of rest and other home remedies. The isolation within this room causes the narrator’s condition to worsen, filling her mind with disturbing images of things that don’t exist. As the story progresses, the tension between the narrator and John grows, as she becomes more weary of his actions, questioning his choice to avoid her and becoming emotionally unavailable. Visions of a woman within the walls of this nursery room plague the narrator, until she sees the woman within the walls as herself. As the woman is trapped within the walls, the narrator is trapped within that room, void of any emotional and psychotic assistance she may need.