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A 3 page paper which examines how Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers her theme through character, plot and setting in her story The Yellow Wallpaper. No additional sources cited.
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issue that was common, yet ignored, during Victorian times. It is the story of a woman who is essentially forced to relax and do nothing, assuming it is overwork that
is making her filled with anxiety and depressed. The truth is that her position, as a woman, in society was restricting her and it ultimately led to her demise. The
them of Gilmans story is essentially that women need to be seen as human beings with needs aside from being a wife and a mother. If they are not seen
as such they will eventually wither in many different ways. The following paper examines this theme and how Gilman presents this theme through her characters, plot and setting. Theme
in Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper In relationship to character the reader almost immediately knows that the womans husband is ignorant and presumptuous, even
in the eyes of his wife, the narrator. She notes 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). This is a very telling line in that it illustrates
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her away to rest. It also tells
a great deal about the character of the woman. This narrator, on her "dead paper" is able to tell someone what she
is thinking without being judged. She clearly understands more about her condition than her husband, realizing that a man cannot possibly understand what she is going through or feeling. She
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