The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist text that highlights unjust social norms and chauvinistic thinking. Gilman was both a feminist and a socialist who saw economic oppression spreading throughout society. He believed that marriage was meaningless and required women to submit to their husbands in exchange for martial support. In the 19th century, women were considered the legal property of their husbands once married, exemplifying society's repression of women. John, who is the narrator's husband, controls much of what his wife can and cannot do. John is able to control his wife because "[He] [is] a high-ranking doctor" (Gilman 165), allowing him to be highly represented in society. Gilman valued her independence and personality. The wallpaper with “uncertain, uncertain curves” and “outrageous angles” (167) symbolizes how women were perceived by society. Through the narrator it is clear that women were not only seen as subservient to men but also weak and domestic. John treats her in a way that characterizes her as a child by calling her a “child” and a “blessed goose” (173). Not only in this aspect are our women seen as "children", but they are also placed in a room that was used as a nursery and playroom, "First it was the nursery, then the playroom... I would say , because the windows are barred for little children" (167). Something as basic as choosing which room to sleep in, is still helpless in the same way that a child is helpless. Once again, John is controlling the narrator by forcing her to sleep upstairs so he can monitor its "condition", rather than moving to the first floor where the narrator believes it is "older". Like a child, at a certain point John takes her upstairs and lays her on the bed to "rest". but also his power over her. Not only does this resemble his authority over her, but it also shows his superiority over her by infantilizing his wife when he reads to her as if she is incapable of reading like a child in Feminist Criticism. “The Yellow Wallpaper” claims that phrases like “John says,” “direct a litany of benevolent prescriptions that throughout the novel exemplify women's subordination to men and her desire for equality. The Yellow Wallpaper is “contemporary feminism” ( Lanser 415) which explores Gilman's emotions and is a testimony to his experience of male supremacy. Through the narrator, readers see a personal attachment that showed the intensity and emotional truth of his personal life exposed the effects of job deprivation on intelligent women and served as an important act of empowerment. What the text really described was not Weir Mitchell's treatment, but the combination of many factors that contributed to his illness and his perception of it. its causes. It highlighted the destructive power of nineteenth-century marriage and the ideal of