This story takes place in the yellow wallpaper-covered upstairs room of a big house that the new mom doesn't really like ( Gilman 368). I believe it is the summer of the late 1800s, since she mentions that there is a lovely garden "with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them" (Gilman 367). The decor is very important, especially the room with yellow wallpaper, as well as the fact that she didn't like the house at first sight. I think if she loved the house in the first place, I don't think she would make such a fuss about the yellow wallpaper. But of course, there's always the matter of her being left alone, which caused her obsession with yellow wallpaper. On the other hand, I believe that if she were left alone in nature, or in another place that she loves, where she could do whatever she wants, the outcome would be much different. Maybe she wouldn't go completely crazy. She would get