The Yellow Wallpaper

Why is the narrator writing in secret?

instead of the narrator telling people in the house she is writing in a journal why doesnt she tell anyone

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The narrator has been prescribed a rest cure and is prohibited from exciting herself as she is diagnosed with a 'nervous condition' which nowadays would be identified as post natal depression.

Gilman based the story on her own experiences and the mental frustration which tortured her as a writer and intellectual condemned to inaction. In the story, the narrator hides her journal as she knows it is against her husband and doctor's wishes-

'There comes John, and I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word.'

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'The Yellow Wallpaper' - Charlotte Perkins Gilman