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A 6 page paper in which the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is discussed. The writer explains the symbolism of the wallpaper to the main character, and analyzes the meaning of the story. No additional sources cited.
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the popular forms of treating certain types of depression or mental illness in women was to lock the woman away from the world for an extended period of "rest."
The problem with this time of "relaxation" was that it only served to intensify the depression, as the woman was not allowed to do anything but be shut away in
a room somewhere, away from not only people, but activities. II. The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Reflections on its Day In the story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," the main character
is shut away as some sort of convoluted treatment for depression. The woman is not allowed contact with people, with the outside world, or anything. She is forbidden
to read, write, or even exercise. This enforced rest was prescribed by her husband, who was also a doctor. During this "treatment" for her depression, the woman was
also kept from being allowed to see her child. During the course of her treatment, and this story, the main character of the story slowly goes mad.
Her inactivity -- both physical and mental -- leads her into such a grave and depressed state, that she is unable to rise from it. What was designed as
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She has a limited number of things in her
room on which she can turn her energies, and she begins to obsess about the most seemingly unimportant things. Her husband, as well as the doctor of that time,
who invented the whole "enforced rest" idea for women, believes that the only way she will recover is by working through her depression in solitude. The truth is, with
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