An entryElaine Hedges reads the story as “One of the rare literary pieces we have by a nineteenth-century woman directly addressing the sexual politics of the male-female, husband relationship -wife” (114). In Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” she portrays a nineteenth-century woman struggling to cure her “temporary nervous depression” due to the immobility her husband imposes on her. During this time period, many males thought that women were weak and helpless, which exemplifies why the husband dominates his wife's thoughts and actions and, as a result, empowers himself. Because this story exists as the narrator's diary, the reader can absorb the secrecy the narrator had behind her husband and the severity of his loss of control. Using the feminist perspective, Gilman illustrates the embodiment of the struggles faced by women in the pursuit of freedom of thought and action. To begin, it is immediately evident in the story that the narrator allows herself to be inferior to her husband John. Being a doctor, John believes that to cure his wife it is necessary to isolate her. The wife talks about his actions towards her, which shows how he presents himself as superior to her. Gilman writes, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (729). Furthermore, today one would never laugh at a troubling problem of one's spouse, but when Gilman says that John "laughs" he signals the arrogance of the male spouse in this categorical period. Furthermore, by referring to the husband's expectation of cachinnation before marriage, it shows the lack of control the woman had over her decisions to get married in the first place. Furthermore, the narrator believes that his words do not matter. She writes... in the middle of the paper... help her see the side of herself that begs for control over her life. According to Hall, as the narrator's "madness intensifies, she identifies with the trapped woman until subject-object relations blur: the two women become one." Gilman incorporated the feminist perspective into her writing by using Jane's struggles to speak for many women who had no voice. Works Cited Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. Literature The human experience. Boston: Bedford/ St.Martins, 2007. Print.Hall, Thelma R. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”: A Surreal Portrait of One Woman’s Arrested Development.” ERIC. 1994. Network. April 16, 2014. Haney-Peritz, Janice. “Monumental Feminism and the Ancestral Home of Literature: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.” Women's Studies 12.2. .EBSCOMegaFILE. 1986.Web. April 16. 2014.