Can we argue that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is anticipated by the work of Dickinson?Naturalism

What a fascinating question! I suppose we could argue that
this excellent short story is a kind of literary descendant of Emily Dickinson's
excellent poetry. What Dickinson's work does is present us with a singularly feminine
view of the world. Her poems are told distinctly from a female point of view, and this
is in contrast to the patriarchal view of the world which the majority of literature
from this time presents us with. "The Yellow Wallpaper" picks this up, and develops it
further, presenting us with an unreliable narrator who is female and struggles against
the restrictions of being a woman in a patriarchal world in which everything is decided
for he and which she has no power. From the very beginning of this excellent story, the
narrator makes it clear that she is trapped in a number of different ways, but one way
in which she is trapped is through her husband's insistence that she is not ill and that
she must have rest and quiet. Her own thoughts and feelings are completely
disregarded:

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Personally, I disagree with their
ideas.

Personally, I believe that congenial work, with
excitement and change, would do me good.

But what is one to
do?

If Dickinson records the
realities of living in a patriarchal world from a female perspective, this story takes
this one step further by showing overtly the ways in which a patriarchal world inhibits
and impinges upon the freedom of the women that live in it. Therefore we can definitely
argue that there is a relation between the work of Dickinson and this short
story.