The importance of the setting in The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte GilmanIn the story "The Yellow Wall-Paper", by Charlotte Gilman, l he setting contributes to the narrator's madness. When he sees the house for the first time, he loves it. She thinks that the house will be the perfect place to recover from her "nervous condition", but this does not happen because her husband confines her to the bedroom to ensure that her health improves. The narrator's mental illness worsens to the point of madness due to her isolation in the bedroom, with only the yellow wallpaper to look at which she considers "repellent, almost revolting; a dirty, smoldering yellow, strangely faded by the sunlight that turns slowly" (106). At the beginning of the story, the narrator moves into a house she is renting while hers is being renovated. He describes the house as "The most beautiful place! It's completely secluded, well off the road, about three miles from the village. It makes me think of the English places you read about, because there are hedges and walls and gates." that lock, and many separate little houses for the gardeners and the people" (105). This quote reflects the fact that she regards this house as a place where only nobles could live. She has only read about houses like this and would never thought he would live there. He seems happy to be able to rent such a house. He adds that "It has a lovely garden! I have never seen a garden like it: large and shady, filled with paths bordered by boxwoods and lined with long grape-covered pergolas with seating underneath" (105). This adds to the elegant and royal qualities that the narrator believes the house has. In the central part of the story, the narrator's description... in the center of the sheet... The narrator, already suffering from a "nervous condition", is forced to remain in her bedroom for much of the story husband does not let her do anything that would require any amount of energy because she needs to focus her energies on healing. Her mental condition rapidly deteriorates from the original "nervous condition" to complete insanity due to this isolation narrator begins to see figures behind the wallpaper, the reader realizes that the wallpaper is a manifestation of his condition. Work cited Gilman, Charlotte. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Eds. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day and Robert Funk. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1996. 105-115.Wagner-Martin, Linda. "The yellow background." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. 981- 982.