It is often said that Literature is the reflection of the society and so critics often try to decipher the hidden meanings behind different literary works so as to find the connection. There are many texts that speak about the condition of women in the society during the Victorian period and a closer analysis of such works reveals the hardships and the agonies faced by women under the dominance of patriarchy. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one such literary piece that highlights the superficiality of “rest cure,” patriarchal strategies to suppress women and the status of women in the Victorian society through the lenses of psychoanalytic and gendered criticisms.