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The Yellow Wallpaper” In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator becomes more depressed throughout the story due to the recommendation of isolation that was prescribed to her. In this short story, the narrator is detained in a lonesome, drab, room in attempt to be freed of a nervous disorder. The narrator’s husband, a physician, follows this belief and forces his wife into a treatment of solitude. Rather than heal the narrator …

…wallpaper caused this treatment, isolation, to be ineffective and harmful. I think, in this case, it made the narrator’s illness worsens. In today’s society, medical and psychological advice may have the same effect. Medical technology and practice have grown since the time of this short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This is not to say that physicians today are infallible. Maybe even some of today’s treatments are “The Yellow Wallpaper” of the future.