Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
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5
ABSTRACT:
This 5 page report discusses the haunting short story “The Yellow
Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), is
both a feminist exploration of the ways in which women of
Gilman’s time were limited to a very narrow definition of what
was socially acceptable for them and a declaration of realism
regarding the inherent damage done to women because of those
limitations. The report takes the position that the narrator
prefers insanity to the layers of confinement she experiences at
the hands of her husband. No additional sources.
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