The unnamed narrator finds herself trapped in a large room covered in yellow wallpaper and hidden from all visitors by her doctor-husband John. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a summer spent in the great ancestral hall to find healing through rest turns into the manic changes of her mind. Her husband's domineering nature inspires a program designed to make her better; ironically, his mind worsens when he believes the wallpaper has come to life. In Janice Haney-Peritz's “Monumental Feminism and the Ancestral Home of Literature: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper,'” she recounts that until 1973, Gilman's story was not viewed with a feminist perspective. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was misunderstood and unappreciated when it was released. The patriarchal attitudes of men in this era often left women feeling like they had no voice and were trapped in their situations. Although originally interpreted as a horror of madness, this initial perspective does not capture the broad and provocative feminist movement Gilman champions. With changes in perspective, over time this work has come to have a voice on behalf of women and the husband-wife relationship through the theme of feminism. Haney-Peritz first examines the husband-wife relationship in the story. John portrays the role of the domineering husband in this era's society, the oppressive controller who keeps the woman in her assigned role. They leave for the ancestral home for the summer, believing that this will be his cure. He convinces her that the rest will be good for her, but she's not sure. The narrator romanticizes the house as haunted. John of course makes ideas sound like nonsense. He doesn't think about the whimsical dreams she describes, instead telling her... middle of the paper... to identify with the narrator, one must follow the nature of the narrator who connects with the supposed woman in the background (122-123). Haney-Peritz states that this manuscript has become a model for feminist writers who look at it through a modern perspective. The story based on the author's real-life experience draws readers to her cause of the women's movement (114). Gilman creates the portrait of a woman dominated by her oppressive husband, giving the long-awaited voice to women around the world. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The yellow wallpaper." Inside the literature. Ed. RS Gwynn and Steven J. Zani. New York, New York: Longman Publishers, 2007. 144-158.Haney-Peritz, Janice. “Monumental Feminism and the Ancestral Home of Literature: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.” Women's Studies. 12.2 (1986)113-128. EBSCOHost. Network. March 10. 2011.