This bizarre painting by Salvador Dali is one image that reminded me of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. As one looks at this painting, the illusion of a face peeks through the white fruit dish and the sand, which perfectly captures the eerily similar feeling that Gilman describes in “The Yellow Wallpaper” as the narrator watched a spot on the wallpaper appear as “a woman stooping down and creeping about behind [the] pattern” (Gilman 652). Dali’s painting is an expression of how the power of the mind can make one see such illusions. Similarly, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” had hallucinations because it is one of the symptoms of “hysteria” (Gilman 648). The mind, in this case, has produced the image of a woman being trapped inside the wallpaper because the narrator herself has felt trapped from continuing her daily tasks and hobbies (Gilman 649).