• "The Yellow Wallpaper", Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

     

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Published: 15.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"The Yellow Wallpaper", Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman', 1.
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"The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman in the late 1800s who suffers from psychological illness and her husbands treatment or lack there of. The story's alteration from the pure mind of a female, into the perspective of a disturbed woman changes what the reader sees. The entire story is told from the mind of the disturbed wife:
"A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity--but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it....John laughs at me, of course, but ones expects that in marriage.....John is practical in the extreme. …

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