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A 3 page analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” No additional sources cited.
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and experience of the author herself. It is a story about the misconceptions men had about women in the past, the 19th century, and how women were generally very much
misunderstood and often misdiagnosed when it came to stress and the need for individuality. The following paper summarizes and analyzes this story. The Yellow Wallpaper The story begins
as the woman tells the reader why she is in the house she is in right now. It is narrated in first person. The woman tells us that "John is
a physician, and perhaps--(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason
I do not get well faster" (Gilman). She then tells us that he does not believe she is actually sick. He generally just assumes her nerves are at edge and
so she needs rest and relaxation, not stimulation and an identity of her own. As the story progresses she becomes worse and her husband does not even allow her
the option to write, so she must sneak in her writing. He feels that any stress on her mind, any intellectual stimulation, would only hurt her. However, we are beginning
to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help her find her identity. But, she is not even
allowed to choose the room she sleeps in and as such she is stuck in a very depressing room with horrid yellow wallpaper. This wallpaper slowly becomes the symbol for
her entrapment as she slowly becomes part of that wallpaper, ripping it apart as she envisions the stripes as her bars, losing her mind in the end: "Ive got
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