"It is the strangest yellow, that wall paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things ..."

The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" describes the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. The narrator becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of a wallpaper.Charlotte Perkins Gilman was ahead of her time , a prominent American feminist, novelist, non-fiction author, lecturer for social reforms, and a public speaker. The semi-autobiographical short story is the author's best remembered work today. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the novel after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.