By this point in cultural evolution, the Madwoman had been depicted from many perspectives, yet the perspective of the Madwoman herself was not explored. Through The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman “gives the mad woman pen and paper, and ultimately a voice of her own. We hear from her directly and in detail” (O’Farrell). Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her narrator to provide a female account of a woman’s descent to madness, giving the madwoman a voice and demonstrating her sympathetically, pointing to the male-defined narrative that pains women as villains but men as heroes or victims.