Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

In this Literary criticism Fleenor talks about how the story is mainly talking about women being confined into their homes. How Gilman Perkins stories relate back to each other in some kind of way. She compares a lot to the isolation of her life. She also states how the Yellow Wallpaper symbolizes many things. I agree with the criticism because she makes valid points about how she says one of the symbols is punishment for being a women let alone a mother because the child in the Yellow Wallpaper is not brought up often because the baby was token away from the mother. The tried to leave the narrator in a room as if it was a punishment.