The room is depicted as follows, “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. The absence of the real decision making opportunity made hard pressure on her. Suffering from depression, she becomes isolated in the room and, although she had a right to express her negative attitude to the room, it was inadmissibly for the wife to protest and to say a final word. It can be said that to some extent she describes the order of the traditional relationships between husband and wife in the, at the first glance, stable family. The wife says that “he is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (Perkins Gilman 12). He has a beloved wife who moves with him to the colonial mansion. He is a successful physician, enjoying his work. Turning back to the plot of The Yellow Wallpaper, it would be logical to compare the life style and the ensuing attitudes of wife and husband to the surrounding reality. The Defeat of Patriarchal Order by the Main Character of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Short Story It should be emphasized that the end of XIX century – the beginning of the XX century became a period of the social and gender inequality sharpening. However, the situation was different for women. At the time, when the technological progress and rapid industry development led to the accelerating speed of life, the development of new communication systems and the increase in the business activity, men were more and more engaged in the business sphere of life spending the majority of their time at work. The mental disorder of the main character resulted from the pressure of the American reality of that period. The story gives us an idea of what position woman took in the American society of the turn of the century. She tells the readers her story of being isolated from the surrounding world in her room which was considered by her husband as the place of her depression treatment and which essentially became the place of her mental pressure. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narration is led by young woman, the wife of the doctor, who became seriously diseased with mental illness. The Place of Woman in the American Society of the Turn of the Century Along with many other literature and art compositions of the beginning of the XX century, the short story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman became one of the powerful drivers of the women emancipation. The Yellow Wallpaper gave impulse to the rethink of the position of woman in the society. The value of the composition lies in the progressive moral it brought to the world of literature as well as social views, redirecting the social mind from the old patriarchal foundations to the recognition of the new social reality.
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