Doctor Knows Best

Doctor Knows Best Often human illness calls for medical attention to acquire both soundness of body and mind. Opinions from medical professionals are sought after by those individuals seeking reassurance and peace of mind in knowing they will receive the best possible treatment. In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents a situation where a respected professional, medical opinion contradicts those thoughts and desires of the patient. The “wife,” and narrator, in …

…To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” The Journal of American History 80 (1993) : 1116. Bibliography Turner 8 Works Cited Bak, John S. “Escaping the jaundiced eye: Foucauldian Panopticism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’” Studies in Short Fiction 31 (1994) : 39-44. Delashmit, Charles and Margaret Long. “Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Explicator 50 (1991) : 32-33. Fishbein, Leslie. “To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” The Journal of American History 80 (1993) : 1116.