unbiased views of the wallpaper. The social convention, which depicted women as an object that should be seen and not heard, and her resistance towards it, allow for the self discovery of a woman desperately trying to seek her role in a society of close-minded people and pre-set standards.
             The story is a depiction of the plight of women's suffrage and the beginning of the rise of feminism, as well as a reflection of the author's own life and experiences. The Yellow Wallpaper generates tension between the desire to know and the fear of knowing: on one hand, the enigma of the bedroom invites curiosity and beckons us towards discovery; on the other hand, its over-determined organization is seated within a firm resolution to build up the bedroom, so that what it hides remains unrealized. The setting of the vast colonial mansion and particularly the nursery room with barred windows provides an image of loneliness and seclusion experienced by the narrator. The convention, which is derived by society and presented in the story by the husband and brother, is a major part of the problem which the narrator is facing in the story. The fact that society expects women to respond to men as if they were well trained dogs acts as a muzzle in the ability for women to express their wants and needs. This inability caused the narrator to be a prisoner of her own mind. Her husband believes that if she is removed from stressful and nervous situations, then her recovery will be faster and more successful. This belief causes the husband to confine his wife to a plain room surrounded by old yellow wallpaper. The na
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