The sarcastic quality of her words, as well as the mocking tone indicates that she believes his advice to be unhelpful. When the narrator is confronted with her husband’s instruction of the rest cure for her ailment, she responds with ‘But what is one to do?’. Gilman begins her short story by setting a distinct patriarchal tone, employing diction specific to provoking feelings of male power and authority over women.
Gilman uses connotative diction, imagery, and symbolism in her story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ to show society the impact of the stigma against mental health and how the predominant patriarchal gender roles affected women in the 1890s.
In the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, Charlotte Perkins Gillman explores and criticizes this practice when she describes the narrator’s life with postpartum depression, and how the doctor’s prescription only worsened her condition.
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