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A 5 page paper which introduces the short story, then examines it in detail to determine the author’s meaning before concluding with a personal evaluation of the work. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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controversial rest cure for a nervous breakdown she suffered after giving birth to her daughter Katharine. The psychological treatment was prescribed and overseen by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, whose
sanitarium is mentioned in the story. It is the intriguing tale spoken in the first-person narrative of the wife (whose name is revealed to be Jane shortly before the
tales conclusion) of a domineering physician, John, who moves - along with her husband, baby son, her housekeeper and sister-in-law Jennie, and nanny Mary - into a remote country mansion
for the summer while home repairs were completed on their home. As the story unfolds, the narrator/protagonist expresses her fear that she may be seriously ill and might require
hospitalization, a suggestion that her husband dismisses as silly. He prescribes medication and constant in an upper-floor nursery that features a hideous yellow wallpaper on that has been stripped
off in a few places. When the protagonist is completely isolated from the outside world by her controlling husband, even prohibited from engaging in her favorite form of creative
expression, writing, she scribbles her observations into a journal whenever John is away. The narrative reflects the protagonists descent into paranoiac insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the
rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin" (Gilman 156). Her increasing identification with the wallpaper is evident in her reflection, "The paper... is dull enough to
confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough constantly to irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide-plunge off
at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions" (Gilman 156). As her madness consumes her, the protagonist convinces herself that there is a woman or women imprisoned
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