Relate the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" to women's work or ability to act?

The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” declares, “congenial work… would do me good. But what is one to do?? (par. 14-15). Notice places in the story where the patients views or wishes are contracticed, or where she is able to do something to change how she is treated. Write an essay bringing a historical perpective to this story’s representation of women’s work or ability to act, or “do.” The essay might include reference to S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure or other treatments of women’s illness in 1880-1920.