From the nineteenth century to the present, the way that women were treated dramatically changed. Women were always looked down on and were …show more content…
She “suffered from a profound melancholic depression since the birth of her daughter three years before” (Martin). Weir Mitchell, her neurologist told her that it was for her own good to “never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again”(Martin). Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a devoted writer that point in time and instead of listening to her Mitchell, her neurologist, authored and distributed this story in the New England Magazine. This story exposed what she considered this cure would do to somebody ultimately if they were restrained to themselves. Removing the pen from Gilman would be equal to confining her in the chamber with the yellow wallpaper. It is a precise and unusual way of writing for when it was conducted, which also makes it