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A 5 page paper looking at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story in terms of what it deliberately does not say. The paper asserts that Gilman's astonishing use of hallucinogenic imagery and symbol conveys the meaning that her protagonist is unable to express. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Yeldial.rtf
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Gilman could have expressed her protagonists dilemma a little more straightforwardly; however, on closer analysis, we find that it is precisely what is not said in the story -- the
"suppressed dialogue" -- that gives it its peculiar power. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" has no name. Generally, when the protagonist of a first-person story remains unnamed throughout the
work, we take this to mean that the character represents all humankind. In this story, however, the main character is unnamed because the experience she is undergoing robs her of
her identity. Her husband, feeling that she is suffering from "nervous prostration" (the nineteenth- century term for a breakdown), rents a house in the country and ensconces his wife in
a third-floor nursery with barred windows. He then takes away her books and writing materials, denies her stimulating companionship that could distract her from her preoccupation with her meager surroundings,
and in short treats her as a combined inmate and child. Denied any kind of healthy stimulus at all, she is forced to provide her own - and this
she does through the overstimulation of her imagination. We can see that at the beginning of the book, our protagonist is not too far gone. At most, she seems edgy
and claims to be overtired, although she seems to be able to write some thousand words at a stretch. In this first section she also describes the yellow wallpaper for
the first time, and because she has described the layout of the gardens and the rooms downstairs so plainly, we are willing to take this description of the wallpaper at
face value. She begins by telling us its ugly; shes "never seen a worse paper in [her] life" , and that it has a "sprawling, flamboyant pattern". Suddenly, however,
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