The yellow wallpaper 

In the short story of the yellow wallpaper, the setting is set in an era where mental illness were a premature exploration. It seems that in this era the oppression of women was greatly alive.  I relate the setting to a time period because the husband reactions to his wife emotions. They seem unfamiliar to  him .  This  was a  time period where  women were  oppressed and a form of breaking free was seen as depression. Rather than embracing it they were shut from the world.