Ecological Adaptation in Literature, "The Yellow-Wallpaper" In the thrilling short story "The Yellow-Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman captivates readers and critics through many literary techniques , including distinctive speech, a first-person perspective of neurosis, and a number of symbolic overtones. However, while these other approaches provide highly educational insights, there is another perspective of Gilman's story that University of Maryland professor Heidi Scott offers: the application of ecology. He writes in his journal article, "Crazed Nature: Ecology in The Yellow Wall-Paper," how the unnamed narrator taps into his animalistic instincts and allows his body to adapt to the new ecological environment. To better understand Scott's analysis, I will explore a Linked to feminism, Gilman's story addresses the humiliation of social codes by illustrating a woman who is put to bed after giving birth and must remain locked up due to the demands of her husband and brother . Gilman works through the narrator to show how the woman slowly fades from the realistic world and into a new one through the yellow wallpaper. The room becomes its reality, and the world outside the window becomes a fantastic illusion. But as the narrator transforms into a creature of the room itself, her physiology transforms depending on the environment. Scott cites Gilman's essay, “The 'Nervous Breakdown' of Women,” on his elaboration of ecologies: “Even if physical-psychic balance is perfect, there remains another necessity for peace of mind; that is, the fit between the individual and the environment” (qtd. in Scott 199). Although Gilman's sanity never reached the narrator's, she was still bordering on the physiological and psychological limit of leaving a world for