Identity In Kate Chopin's The Yellow Wallpaper

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The yellow wallpaper is about is about a women driven insane by depression and a dangerous treatment. However by examining the protagonist characteristics of the story you can see that the story is mostly about identity. Jane(the wife) and her husband moved into a colonial mansion. Jane said that she liked the house. She wanted the downstairs bedroom but John told her no and gave her the most ugliest room in the house.Jane thought that the house was haunted because of the drawings on the wall. Jane (the wife) is a middle class wife that has no power over anything. Jane got diagnosed with depression. Her husband John, that is a doctor and Jane's husband, made Jane stay in the room for rest. He put her in ugliest room