The Yellow Wall-Paper.

After reading the short  story I realized it  was actually deeper than it looks.Firstly you get the perception of a young women who deals with depression and her insanity worstens  and worstens  throughout the story  while in fact it isn't a story who talks about mental illnesses and depression and how to manage it .Its actual themes are gender roles and the  male oppression against women.Since the story is written at the 19 century which is a second wave of feminism the author tries to reveal how women were treated those times and suffered a lot.There are a lot of themes and symbols inside the story which all rotate to the main theme I mentioned above.Lets take for example simply the diary.It symbolises the true feelings and  some kind of insidious rebellion women had against men's pressure,it was the only place the narrator could express her real feelings ,but it also symbolises their limits as the narrator was not allowed to write by her husband John.Except she had limits inside her room she also had limits inside as she wasn't allowed to redecorate her room although that yellow colour kept driving her crazy.These show male dominance at every sphere of a women's life.That's what caused her depression.The narrator wasn't driving crazy from the writing  or that yellow colour but it was actually driving crazy from her husband's control and pressure and also by her domestic life..She was sick and tired of being controled and told what to do, it was obvious that her words didn't count a thing for her husband.The narrator is imprisoned both physically and emotionally.She isn't able to understand what's the real cause of her illness until the end when she rippes off that yellow paper inside her room which metaphorically means that she is no longer controlled and influenced by her husband  and gains strengh and  takes her own remote of her life.I actually find this short story very interesting  and beautiful as it implements feminist ideals in a such mysterious and metaphorical tone and style.