The Yellow Wall-Paper is a terrific and terrifying story that speaks aptly of the author's own frustrations; frustrations she probably shared with many women of her time. This best-seller of the Feminist Press features a mentally-ill female protagonist, her mansplaining husband/doctor, and the latter's unaspiring sister. 
 I imagine that there's been hundreds of college papers inspired by these 6000-or-so words -- Gilman was a controversial writer, with titles like Moving the Mountain (1911) and Herland (1915), both of which describe feminist utopias. While third-wave feminists suggest that - despite all the economic, legal, technological and cultural advancements - there still exists 'patterns' of patriarchy, albeit difficult to trace, this story will surely hold some inspiration for feminists of today, in their struggle for self-identification. 
 That is because, being compelled to address something that only truly reveals itself to those who search it and to those who are affected by its vicinity, feminists of the West deal with a frustrating tragedy, such as is 1.) tempting for others to ignore and even dispel, and 2.) mentally-taxing to address. This is the Yellow Wall-Paper.