<P> On the last day of summer, she locks herself in her room to strip the remains of the wallpaper . When John arrives home, she refuses to unlock the door . When he returns with the key, he finds her creeping around the room, circling the walls and touching the wallpaper . She exclaims, "I've got out at last,...in spite of you and Jane?", and her husband faints as she continues to circle the room, stepping over his inert body each time she passes . </P> <P> Gilman used her writing to explore the role of women in America at the time . She explored issues such as the lack of a life outside the home and the oppressive forces of the patriarchal society . Through her work Gilman paved the way for writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath . </P> <P> In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman portrays the narrator's insanity as a way to protest the medical and professional oppression against women at the time . While under the impression that husbands and male doctors were acting with their best interests in mind, women were depicted as mentally weak and fragile . At the time women's rights advocates believed that the outbreak of women being diagnosed as mentally ill was the manifestation of their setbacks regarding the roles they were allowed to play in a male - dominated society . Women were even discouraged from writing, because their writing would ultimately create an identity and become a form of defiance for them . Gilman realized that writing became one of the only forms of existence for women at a time where they had very few rights . </P> <P> Gilman explained that the idea for the story originated in her own experience as a patient: "the real purpose of the story was to reach Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and convince him of the error of his ways". She had suffered years of depression and consulted a well - known specialist physician who prescribed a "rest cure" which required her to "live as domestic a life as possible". She was forbidden to touch pen, pencil, or brush, and was allowed only two hours of mental stimulation a day . </P>

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