In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a nameless protagonist is subjected to the rest cure by her physician husband; she’s kept in an infantilized state in a New England nursery and forbidden to work or write. She is driven to madness and imagines that a woman is trapped within the wallpaper. By the end of the story, she has become the woman in the wallpaper and frees herself by ripping the wallpaper off the walls.
