The hidden meaning Before the 20th century, women were discriminated against by men in work and freedom. Both men and women had different opinions and perspectives towards women in society during the 19th century. “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a prominent American feminist, wrote short stories from a woman's point of view. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” begins the story by describing the house where her husband took her for the summer vacation. The male over female domination, the treatment of the narrator isolated in a small room, and the yellow wallpaper had caused the narrator's mind to collapse. The narrator has few rights to express his opinions throughout the story. John was depicted as a villain in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and has a strong dominance over the narrator. Since John is a traditional doctor, he follows step by step the narrator's depression treatment from the book that went horribly wrong. Furthermore, by combining the authority of a doctor and that of the narrator's husband, John ignored the narrator's opinion on the matter forcing her to hide her feelings regarding the reasons behind her depression. The narrator believes that: if a high-ranking doctor, and one's husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing wrong other than a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency - what is to be done? . . . So I take phosphates or phosphites, whatever they are, and tonics, and travel, and air, and exercise, and I am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again. Personally, I don't agree with their ideas. . .Indeed, John's strong authoritative voices as a doctor ignored...... half of the document ......en. “He said that after the wallpaper was changed, it would be the heavy bed, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the top of the stairs, and so on.” John refuses to help with the narrator's request about wallpapers while she has to continue looking at the wallpaper during the treatment. During his treatments, John and his brother never consider the narrator's opinions on illness and wallpaper. In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" it was told from a female perspective how the narrator became a psychopath due to society's views on women during the 19th century. century. From the woman's perspective, John was portrayed as a villain because he refused and ignored his wife's request regarding the wallpaper. Trapping in a secluded room with yellow wallpaper and domination in society drove the narrator mad.