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A Reading Of Gilman’s “the Yellow Wallpaper”

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...classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper is a closely observed and extremely disturbing portrait of a woman slowly going insane. The unnamed narrator is being driven mad by what we would probably today diagnose as post-partum depression, as well as a husband who, as a man of his time and a physician, ends up doing her incalculable harm. This paper argues that the woman trapped in the wallpaper is Gilman herself, and that she and other women of her time were imprisoned by society in the domestic sphere, which was thought to be the only place suitable for them. It further argues that by denying the narrator what she needs most—her writing—the doctors made her condition worse, and that they did so because of their standing as males who were considered in every way her superiors.
Discussion
The story is beautifully done and frightening because of the way Gilman describes the oncoming madness. She doesn’t become a gibbering wreck overnight; each day she seems a little worse; each day she loses more...

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