A Rose for Emily

"The Yellow Wallpaper"
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby!" (Gilman 489)

This sentence stood out to me because before I read it I had no idea why the protagonist was sick. After reading this sentence I realized that it could be post- pardum depression. There are hints that this is why she is sick because in the whole story she only mentions her baby twice. Usually after women have children they are all that the women can talk about but that is not the case with Jane.
Although I think that it is this depression that initially makes her sick, I think that her sickness intensifies because of the way that her husband was trying to "cure" her. She is basically locked in this horrible room, with ugly yellow wall paper and bars on the windows. Her husband won't allow her to write which is something that I think can inevitably cure her.