As a social critic and prominent feminist in the United States of the late 1880's, Charlotte Perkins Gilman had to overcome a lot of challenges. In the short story "the yellow wallpaper" Gilman once again defied society. The story is about a depressive woman who is socially cut off because of her disease and became self destructive. The principal character and narrator of this story does not give her name although she is the author of the story. The plot is a chronological sequence of events; the most common plot, also the one used by Gilman, follow this path: Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution. This story "the yellow wallpaper" is plotted following the most common scheme the narrator follows a pretty steady logic throughout the story. Gilman's story is terrifying but the way she kept the story all vivid makes it more interesting. The narrator insisted on foreshadowing and suspense which make the reader more involved. The sequences are following in order part of the narrator tactics is to make the story easy to understands with some participation from the reader. Based on what I study on plots thus far I will break down the different part of a plot and how they relate to Gilman's story.
             The beginning of "the yellow wallpaper" is a short but neat description of the place where the events are happening. This is often referred to the exposition part of the plot; it serves to introduce the place and background of the story. The main protagonist of the story is sick; she seems to suffer from the post maternal syndrome. The family is repairing their house so they rent this beach house for three weeks in order for the woman to recover. At the beginning of the story they just moved in the new place, the woman is introduced to us trough herself, she starts to write her diary. She is still sick but people around her are really protective. Her husband J...