For today's twentieth-century women, who have more freedom than before and have not experienced the depressive life Gilman lived from 1860 to 1935, it is difficult to understand the thought Gilman's situation and understand the meaning of "The Yellow Wallpaper". Gilman's original 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 of his stories: a true literary piece...the most directly, obviously, self-consciously autobiographical of all his stories" (Introduction xvi). And more importantly, Gilman says in his article on The Forerunner: "It wasn't intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from going crazy, and it worked" (20). Therefore, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a revelation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's emotions. When the story first came out in 1892, critics considered "The Yellow Wallpaper" a depiction 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 anything to show 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 home, but was also expected to be liked, to be cheerful and cheerful, smiling and good-humoured" (Lane, To Herland 109) . Those women who rejected this role and pursued intellectual enlightenment and freedom would be ridiculed, alienated, and even punished. This is exactly what Gilman experienced when he tried to express his desire for independence. Gilman expressed her emotional and psychological feelings of rejection by society for thinking freely in "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is a reaction to the fact that it was against society's trend for women to pursue intellectual freedom or a career at late 1800s. His taking of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's "rest cure" was the result of the pressures of these prevailing social values. Charlotte Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, into a family that boasted a roster of revolutionary thinkers and writers. And intermarriage among them was, as Carol Berkin said, "a quiet confirmation of their pride in association" (18).