Literary Sample

Literature is one of my favorite art forms. I had "Literary Imagination" with Dr. Peck and my eyes were opened to many new samples.
One of my favorites was "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a short story written in 1892. The strange story is written in first person through the eyes of a wealthy Doctor's wife. They leave town to a country house as a treatment for her "depression" brought on by the birth of their child. After some time, she begins to hallucinate and see a lady in the yellow torn wallpaper of her room. The most interesting part of this writing to me is the perspective. As she writes this story in her diary, the reader can see how she truly believes that there is a woman living in the wallpaper, "creeping, creeping." The story's overall theme actually has to due with Perkins' own personal experiences with depression and the suppression of women's rights.