Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" graphically depicts the treatment of a woman by a man in a way that expresses a universal tragedy. She artfully employs actions of characters, dialogue, and detail to indicate if a man suppresses a woman, it could lead to losing her individuality.
             Gilman uses actions of characters to show how a woman lost her individuality. There are two main characters in "The Yellow Wallpaper", John and his wife. If only John would treats his wife with respect and just try to listen and understand her thoughts and feelings, and let her do the things that she wants to do the most, such as writing and tear down the yellow paper she hates so much, she wouldn't of lose her individuality and perhaps would get better faster from her sickness. But John didn't do any of that. Here is an example. " I tried to have a real earnest talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there;" John's actions made her have no choice of deciding what she wants from her life. She has to hide whenever she feels like writing, which is the one thing that she love to do, "There comes John, and I must put this away-he hates to have me write a word." Both examples clearly demonstrate that his actions of suppressing his wife would lead to lose her individuality.
             Gilman also uses dialogue to furthermore demonstrate the unwillingness of her husband not listening to almost anything that she says. Here is a dialogue between John and his wife when she wanted to talk to him about taking her away from the place. "Why darling!" Said he. "Our lease will be up in three weeks, and I can't see how to leave before." "I don't wait a bit more," said I, "nor as much; an
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