The ideas expressed by Gilman are femininity, socialization, individuality and freedom in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman uses these ideas to help her readers understand what women lost during the 1900s. She also let her readers understand how her character Jane escaped her husband's wrath. She uses her own mind on the matter. She expresses these ideas in the form of the character Jane. Gilman uses a variety of ways to explain how women and men in the 1900s had rules regarding their marriage. Women are the housewives while husbands are the breadwinners. Men treated women like objects, thus not giving them their own healthy minds. First, the 1900s were a time when women were trying to shed the housewife image and get work. This causes many difficulties between husbands and wives. Jane is about to begin to shed her housewife image and pursue a career as a writer. “I sit by the window now, in the dreadful manger, and nothing prevents me from writing as much as I wish, except want of strength” (Gilman, 1599). Jane begins to realize that she is losing her feminism. John recognizes this and tries to do everything he can to stop Jane. John knows that Jane is abandoning her role as wife, housewife and mother. In our time, husbands do not believe that women can reconcile their family and professional responsibilities. Jane decides to oppose the life of a housewife and take up writing. The feminist role is "The concept of 'the new woman,' for example, began to circulate in the 1890s and 1910s, as women pushed for broader roles outside of domestic roles, which could rely on women's intelligence and their non-domestic skills and talents. " (http:/...... middle of paper...... Jane tears the wallpaper and separates from her alter ego, thus gaining her freedom. In conclusion, Jane has gone through oppression and depression but she defends what she believes in. Jane gains her femininity, her socialization, her individuality and her freedom. Her husband, who has oppressed her for so many years, is no longer her prison guard. sneaks up on him and claims his life, "so that I had to crawl over him every time" (Gilman 1609) is now her own personal freedom through perseverance -white-wall-papermdashwriting-women. . Np, nd Web February 19, 2011. Perkins Gilman, Charlotte "The Yellow Wallpaper." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Concise ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 1597-1609. Print.