Support is Big

I think Virginia Woolf’s idea of “a room of one’s own” is not the only things women writers need because in the Yellow wallpaper the narrator has money and a quiet room. She clearly has something wrong with her psychologically but it is not being treated properly by locking her into a room by herself with her thoughts. It is actually making her go crazy and is not able to express herself in any form of expression yet alone literature. “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.”(Stetson pg. 648) This shows that she wants to write but without the support of her husband and brother she finds it to be rather difficult. So I would add to Virginia Woolf’s idea that some women also need support from their family. The yellow wallpaper directly challenges Woolf’s idea and tries to show that there should be a couple of other additions added to make it fit a wider audience of women writers. Woolf’s idea is not wrong but it is not the whole truth behind being a successful women writer.