When I read the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I thought it as a scary tale about a woman in the mental disorder, some psychological problem related to the mind. It was really like a horrible film which made my hair stand on end. However, after several times of reading, I found out some other aspects from the story about the society, the humans in the twentieth century. Especially, the thing makes me think about a lot is the women's role in society at that time. The first thing I could find out is that the woman in this story is the victim of social convention. She allows herself to be inferior to men, particularly her husband, John. Being a physician, he has special orders for her: To stay in bed, suppress her imagination, and most importantly to discontinue her writing. Though she feels better when she writes, and feels it may be beneficial, she does not say anything. "Personally I disagree with their ideas," she writes. "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?." Her saying "what is one to do?," gives me the feeling that she has no self-confidence in herself. She depends on her husband, accepts his orders and lets him make the decisions for her. It reflects that women remained the second-class citizens at that time with its distinction between the "domestic"functions of the female and the "active" work of the male. That's reason why the men always had effect of keeping women in a childish state of ignorance and prevented women from their dreams and their full development. I think that this social convention is so harsh that it caused a lot of tragedies for women at that time. In the story of "Chrysanthemums," we had caught Elisa Allen - who has attempted to conceal herself by the masculine shelter. The reason that makes Elisa "acts the mask for her face" maybe come from the powerless to make decision for her own destiny. Elisa is a vi