The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey into Insanity In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is also …showed first 75 words of 460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 460 total…to decline. "I don't feel as if it was worthwhile to turn my hand over for anything . . ." (Gilman 197). It seems that her husband is oblivious to her declining condition, since he never admits she has a real problem until * Roberts 3 the end of the story at which time he fainted. John could have obtained council from someone less personally involved in her case, but the only help he seeks was for the house and baby