The Yellow Wallpaper

I thought it was interesting that the author seemed to connect the gap seen between the doctor-patient relationship and an overbearing marriage.The wall I could see somehow symbolized the speakers physical and mental state. She felt trapped in her own home,in her own family, with everyone watching her every move and all she wanted to do was get away. It made me think about pain, the patient, and the doctor's advice. I remember reading somewhere that the worse thing to do for pain relief is to rest. In some cases, it would be better to 'walk out' the pain. This reading I think is a testament to that. Rest made her restless, she just had to think, to write and excercise her creative/imaginative mind and she got better.(assuming she still is'nt sick or mentally imbalanced).The house and more importantly the wall captivated her, helped her think. I think it was made to be yellow because it is a color associated with illness(abnormal discoloration). The only exhausting and perhaps saddest thing is that she had to hide how she felt and what she did.The reading also shows that sometimes the patient knows best. When she started talking as if she were the woman in the wall, that really made the reading interesting, almost gave it a scifi/ fantasy feel(unless she's crazy).I wonder what's next for her.