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This 4 page paper discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and argues that the narrator represents all women who are trying to get out from behind the pattern on the wallpaper—that is, who are trying to escape from a society that tells them what they can and cannot do. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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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 doesnt become a gibbering wreck overnight; each day she seems a little worse; each day she loses more of her grip on reality until by
the end of the story she is teetering on the brink of complete insanity. The story is highly symbolic. For example, the womans husband John insists that they take the
former nursery for their room. Its at the top of the house, and quite large, but she wanted something on the ground floor, a room that "opened on the piazza
and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it" (Gilman, 1899). Thus from the very first we understand that
not only is John completely dominating his wife, he is so certain that he knows whats best for her that he doesnt even listen to her. He repeatedly refers to
her as "dear," but his manner is so smug and patronizing that the reader wants to slap him silly. At any rate, he denies her request for a small
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