Mind over Matter The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, tells about a young women suffering from nervousness (which was really post-pardom depression after having her baby boy) and a husband that is controlling of her due to the illness. The young women is lead to believe that she is very ill and what her husband says is best for her, is really the best for her. The character of the story gradually realizes …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…Jennie at the end and became a free women. At the beginning they had drilled it in her mind that she was weak and ill, but at the end she realizes that she is not as ill as they tell her. The author describes in great detail in the short story about the theme Mind over Matter, and how the First person point of view, and as well as the setting help mold the theme.