The Yellow Wallpaper

A woman undergoing a prescribed rest cure is confined with limited stimulation and forbidden to work; confined in an upstairs nursery with a disturbing yellow wallpaper, she becomes increasingly preoccupied with its pattern. Isolated and patronized by her husband, she first studies the paper's chaotic design, then imagines figures moving within it, projecting frustration and agency onto the walls. Her obsession grows into a private investigation and eventual identification with a trapped woman she perceives behind the pattern, culminating in acts that blur the boundary between imagination and breakdown. The narrative explores control, gendered medicine, domestic confinement, and the fragility of sanity.