For today's 20th century women, who have more freedom than before and have not experienced the depressive life that Gilman lived from 1860 to 1935, it is difficult to understand Gilman's attitude. situation and understand the meaning of “Yellow Wallpaper”. Gilman's initial purpose in writing the story was to gain personal satisfaction if Dr. S. Weir Mitchell could change his treatment after reading the story. However, as Ann L. Jane suggests, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is "the best conceived of his fiction: a true work of literature...the most directly, obviously, consciously autobiographical of all his stories" (Introduction xvi). And more importantly, Gilman says in his article in The Forerunner: “The goal was not to make people crazy, but to keep people from going crazy, and it worked” (20). Therefore, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a revelation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's own emotions. When the story first came out in 1892, critics viewed "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a portrait of female madness rather than a story revealing an aspect of society. In The Transcript, a Boston doctor wrote, “Such a story should not be written…it was enough to drive anyone mad to read it” (Gilman 19). This statement implies that any woman who wrote something to show her opposition to dominant social values ​​must be crazy. In Gilman's time, "the ideal woman was not only assigned a social role that confined her to her house, but she was also expected to love him, to be cheerful and cheerful, to smile and in good spirits” (Lane, To Herland 109). Women who rejected this role and sought intellectual education and freedom would be mocked, alienated, and even punished. This is exactly what Gilman experienced when she tried to express her desire for independence. Gilman expressed her emotional and psychological feelings of rejection from society for thinking freely in "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is a reaction to the fact that it was against society for women to pursue intellectual freedom or career in the late 1800s. Her taking Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's "rest cure" was a result of the pressures of these dominant social values. Charlotte Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, into a family with a roster of revolutionary thinkers and writers. And intermarriage among them was, as Carol Berkin says, "a quiet confirmation of their pride of association »." (18).