Charlotte Gilman's work The Yellow Wallpaper is an incredible scheme that maintains the entire story that the author wants to present behind the external one, the story of a Demented woman kept in a nursing home. The fundamental idea about the external surface and the internal essence covered by it is both implemented in the structure and expressed by the message of the story. The story of the psychological metamorphosis undergone by the character is hidden behind the concrete story of a crazy woman and her visions in a dark room with yellow paper on the walls. The understanding of the mental recovery that the character experiences depends on the reader's ability to distinguish between the cover and the underlying essence as applied in the structure of the story. The Yellow Wallpaper revolves like a monologue on behalf of the main character, a woman. he suffers from a nervous breakdown and sometimes it seems like a diary. To many readers, the character's condition seems to worsen as he recounts his visions in the nursing home. This first impression, however, is misleading because the story in its entirety is an acute analysis of his own mental recovery process, in which the character retraces the stages through which he goes to restore his lost identity. Starting from the realistic representation of a woman, hospitalized in a nursing home, under the care of her apparently loving and highly competent doctor-husband, the story increasingly loses the concreteness of the action and dives into the abstract images that are being born in the mind of the character. Information about the family relationship between the woman and her husband, John, is intertwined... middle of paper... ...hilarious nervous breakdown. As she herself states, however, this wallpaper actually saved her from the disease. In her visions from the wallpaper she discerned her own imprisoned mind trying to escape the bars her husband had imposed on her. No matter how disjointed and irrational this plot may seem upon first reading, it is a perfectly constructed symbolic tale of the unnoticed changes that occur in people's minds rather than in their overt actions. Thus, through a system of symbols with constant connotations, the author conveys a detailed description of her recovery from the realization of her status to the open act of opposition to her husband. Gilman's work is unique not only for its complex subject, like that of a deranged person, but above all for the subtle internal structure of the plot that reveals the essence of the story..