When Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she was suffering from depression and as a result, her doctor had recommended that she be on a “rest cure.” While writing, Gilman wanted to make a statement about feminism and individuality and decided to allow her readers to "climb inside" the narrator’s mind to discover what she thought and felt after being sent to “rest cure” by her husband. The story of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is centered on its description. John, the narrator’s husband, has special orders for his wife to stay in bed, suppress her imagination, and to stop writing. Immediately, it is apparent that the woman allows herself to be submissive to men. The narrator does not believe in the “rest cure” but is forced to do it. She asks herself, “what is one to do when she secretly writes in her notebook" (Ward, 75). This submission shows her lack of self-confidence and feeling lower then men. The narrator believes that her own statements and opinions do not count. The narrator’s description of the wallpaper becomes more detailed as her health worsens. The wallpaper is floral; a symbolism for femininity. As the story went on, the wallpaper becomes a text of sorts in which the narrator imagines and identifies with another woman trapped in the wallpaper. When John takes her writing away, the narrator wants to figure out who the women in the wallpaper is. She reverses her initial feelings of being watched by the wallpaper and began to study and decoding its meaning. She decode the woman trying to creep out of the wallpaper. The narrator also smells the paper throughout the house, which symbolizes how the wallpaper is infecting the narrator’s mind. The narrator throughout the story shares her hatred towards the wallpaper to her husband. But John does not care nor try to understand the narrator’s anxiety towards the wallpaper. John also belittles her by calling her a “little