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Seeing Yellow In “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows us how sometimes if others tell us that something is true, it seems that we make it come true. This is called the self-fulfilling prophecy. Because the main character is told what she can and can’t do by the people who were around her, it is hard for us to see her real personality. The only way that we get a chance to see her true personality is by the journal that she keeps. After reading the journal, we are left wondering whether she is really crazy or not when the story begins, and what has caused her to go insane at the end of the story. The main character starts off the story by simply describing the things she and her husband do, and it sounds as if they are just a normal couple. However, we learn that her husband and her brother are both doctors, and they have similar opinions about her condition: “that there is really nothing the matter with one but