"The Yellow Wallpaper"

           In "The Yellow Wallpaper", there is a girl that is writing constantly.  I find this strange because nobody else "allows" her to write.  This girl writes about random things and seems to be extremely scatter brained.  She has many thoughts about different experiences she has had and people she is surrounded by, but they seem to be random and spur of the moment thoughts.  This girl's husband tells her that the sickness that this girl possesses takes time to get better.  I feel like it is a lie.  She really can’t do much work and is patronized by many people.  It is almost as if she is babied.  The people that care for her don’t believe she is capable of doing things a wife should do at this time.  In my opinion, I think this girl might have a mental sickness, not a physical sickness.  The only reason why I feel like this is because the people that we have been introduced to treat her like she is a little girl.  Her husband even calls her little girl.  Calling your spouse little girl is far from normal.  The woman writes “I cry at nothing, and I cry most of the time” (Gilman, 7) which hints that there really is something wrong with her and it is not physical.  This girl also despises the wallpaper that is in her room.  She doesn’t mind everything else her husband has put in the room, but she can’t stand the wallpaper.  Even knowing that, the husband ignores her and does nothing about it.  This makes me think that her husband doesn’t value her opinion and is more concerned on what he thinks is important.  Her husband doesn’t take her ideas into consideration because he feels that she is inferior.  The inferiority is sensed when her husband talks to her the way he does, in a mocking and patronizing tone.