“Women's work in the home, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. Stated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She compared women's work to that of a horse because just as a horse has no say in the matter, neither do women. She states that men could be richer if women worked instead of just doing housework, but they have the right to keep the house and that is the economic function in society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a great feminist in her time and influenced women through her literature such as The Yellow Wallpaper which showed women's struggles through her mind being forced to listen to a man's orders on what would cure her mental illness ( Cott ).Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper. It was a sick woman whose husband had diagnosed her staying in a room all day. He didn't have to do anything intellectually like reading or writing. Eventually the women became mentally ill and became obsessive about the yellow wallpaper in the room. He claims to have seen a woman trapped behind the wallpaper. As time passed her mental state had taken a physical turn and she "tore off the yellow wallpaper in the room" which ended up becoming her skin. What this represents is herself trapped in her own skin. There has never been a woman in the wallpaper who was unable to free herself from her husband (Lane). Gilman was diagnosed with nervous "prostration." This disorder consists of very painful mental sensations, shame, fear, remorse, a blind and oppressive confusion, an absolute weakness, a constant brain ache that fills the conscious mind with crowded images of anguish. The worst thing is that Gilman starves... in the middle of paper... paper, but in reality she was the one who didn't want to be seen and that's why when she tore off the wallpaper it was her skin. There was no wallpaper, the wallpaper was the character's skin and his tearing away at his skin symbolized his release from control and not being able to have a say in anything. She was finally in control of herself and her actions. She was no longer hidden, now she could show herself and feel powerful, which also represented the turning point of feminism. The yellow wallpaper represented a time in the author's life when she was controlled by a man. She was unable to control herself and was given instructions for a “cure” that would aid her madness. His mood worsened without being able to carry out intellectual thinking activities such as writing. He proved to the world that not everything a man says is right.