Critical Analysis of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

I chose to do the Feminist theory response of "The Yellow Wallpaper". Feminist theory response is a feminist viewpoint of the story that pays close attention to the description of both male and female characters and try to determine the underlying power asscociated with these descriptions. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a story of how women were treated in the early 1900's. If women display or have been diagnosed  with a mental illness the treatment is "rest cure". Rest cure is bed rest for months at a time and is restricted any form of mental stimulation. The narrator is diagnosed with a nervous disorder which is what we call today Post-Partum Depression. She is not allowed to read, write, or even see her baby. To carry out this treatment, the woman's husband John takes her to a country house where she is kept in a former nursery decorated with yellow wallpaper.
The plot is based around her mental illness and the progression of the illness through the state of the wallpaper. The theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper", is the subordination of women in marriage. The woman is forced to be passive, forbidden to exercise her mind in any way. It is apparent in the story that the woman allows herself to be inferior to men, in particular her husband John. Being a physician he orders her to stay in bed, surpress her imagination and most importantly to discontinue her writing. The symbolism of this story is that her mental state is characterized by the encounters with the wallpaper in her room. The woman's illness is displayed throughout the state of the wallpaper. The wallpaper itself is symbolic of the mental perseption that men portray of women in the early 1900's. The color of the wallpaper is yellow which is associated with sickness and weakness.
The narrators husband John, a physician forbids his wife from doing any type of work and does not allow her to see her baby. The narrator believes that work, excitement, and change would do her good, but her opinion does not matter. She likes to write, which is forbidden and secretly keeps a diary doing so exhauts her as does trying to oppose her husband. The woman decribes her writing as "Such Relief", but because of John's constant observations of her as well as her low energy level she must direct her imagination elsewhere, so she begins to fantasize about the wallpaper. The wallpaper, when first introduced sets the scene between the woman and her illness. The paper is being described as being, "dull enough to confuse the eye in the following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide-plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions," (Gilman,7). What makes this story a feminist theory is why the woman narrator is unknown but the husband is given a name?