The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper is a story about a lady that suffered from depression. But in her day, this was thought of as a sickness instead of depression. Since her husband John was a doctor, she trusted him to know best about her situation and treat her with the best of care, especially since this was her soul mate. To treat this sickness, most women in this position were told to sleep a lot and were forbidden to do any work. Her husband would also give her drugs to make her drowsy, as did most of the women of that day when they were in the same condition. One thing her husband made her do was take at least an hour nap after each meal. She would always lay down for that hour but managed to get very little sleep in the hour she was lying down.
One of the things her husband did was rent a house out in the country for three months because a highly reliable and well-known doctor recommended it. The room that this lady stayed in was kind of like a prison in some ways.......
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