“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a semi-autobiographical story .
"The Yellow Wallpaper,” has an autobiographical element to it. It was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper can be evaluated with ten different types of literary criticism: formalist, biographical, historical, psychological, mythological, sociological, gender, reader-response, deconstructionist, and cultural studies.
It is a semi-autobiographical short story dealing with mental health and contemporary social expectations for women.