Yellow Wallpaper Powerlessness

Everyday people are pressured into making choices they know they wouldn’t want for themselves, but they feel vulnerable or feel as they have no other choice, this is called being powerless. Leaving power to being someone who is dominant of another which usually in a story, has a negative impact on the person that has less power than another. A person that has power, believes they’re obligated to take action in whatever they please but a person who is powerless, it becomes more challenging.

A great example of powerlessness would be in the story, Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story starts off by saying the wife was diagnosed that she was depressed and the husband was a doctor which means that he is in a higher position in life which is why he is in control of the actions his wife makes. narrator and her husband arrive at a country estate for a "rest" vacation.

She begins to sense a "yellow smell" in the room.

Convinced there’s a woman stuck behind the wallpaper, she strips it off the walls in order to free her. She then declares that she has escaped from the paper, and her husband faints when he finally sees how insane she has become.

The narrator and her physician husband, John, have rented a place for the Summer. She was diagnosed with temporarily being depressed, so she is put in a room and is forbidden from working or writing. The narrator detests the wallpaper, but John refuses to change rooms, arguing that the nursery is best-suited for her recovery.

As more days pass, the narrator grows increasingly anxious and depressed. The wallpaper provides her only stimulation, and she spends the majority of her time studying its confusing patterns which, as she asserts, are almost as “good as gymnastics.” The image of the figure stooping down and "creeping" around behind the wallpaper becomes clearer each