Question: what is the theme of the yellow wall paper

title: The Yellow Wallpaper
text: In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman portrays the narrator 's insanity as a way to protest the medical and professional oppression against women at the time . While under the impression that husbands and male doctors were acting with their best interests in mind , women were depicted as mentally weak and fragile . At the time women 's rights advocates believed that the outbreak of women being diagnosed as mentally ill was the manifestation of their setbacks regarding the roles they were allowed to play in a male - dominated society . Women were even discouraged from writing , because their writing would ultimately create an identity and become a form of defiance for them . Gilman realized that writing became one of the only forms of existence for women at a time where they had very few rights . 

Answer: answer: In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman portrays the narrator's insanity as a way to protest the medical and professional oppression against women at the time. While under the impression that husbands and male doctors were acting with their best interests in mind, women were depicted as mentally weak and fragile. Gilman realized that writing became one of the only forms of existence for women at a time where they had very few rights.
answer: In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman portrays the narrator's insanity as a way to protest the medical and professional oppression against women at the time.