Charlotte Gilman's demented short story “the yellow wallpaper” uses first person point of view to emphasize the narrator's progression of mental insanity throughout the story. The reader is lead first hand along the character's slow creep from a lucid nervous women to a delusional, untrusting, psychopath. In the beginning of the story Gilman describes the narrator as a lucid weak minded character that is well aware of her own nervous condition but is averse to the treatments enforced by her husband John. The narrator is mindful of her condition and would “fancy if it had less opposition and more society and stimulus.” The narrator yearns for less people trying to conceal her in attempt to fix the condition but instead wants to have more interactions with the outside world, she believes that will be a far better plan of treatment for herself but john disagrees. This leads the reader to believe that narrator is confident in her opinion towards her condition but their view of the narrator is changed when she continues on saying “— John says the very worst thing I can do is think about my condition” but she is forced to because she has no one else to talk to since john concealed her in the room. The narrator interrupts her own train of thought by recalling johns instruction, this shows the husband's authority over her very own state of mind. Gilman allows the reader to connect with the narrator through first person, bringing forth the realization of the narrator being physically and mentally controlled by her husband, this evokes a feeling of sympathy towards the weak minded narrator. With this connection to the narrator is has the reader begin to question whether she’s even insane or if it is John who wants to keep her confined. As the story begins to take a shift, the reader begins to question whether the narrator is reliable or not due to the increase of