Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper , with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (I never had hallucinations or objections to my mural decorations) and sent a copy to the physician who so nearly drove me mad. He never acknowledged it. What was Gilman’s most likely reason for sending a copy of her story to her former physician?