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Charlotte Perkins Gulman's"The Yellow Wallpaper"

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gulman was an interesting story following a woman's sort of descent into madness while being kept in a single room with yellow wallpaper. The story is told through the eyes of a woman writing in her journal, who does not see herself as changing but as one reads through it, can slowly see her deterioration. She initially is sane as the story began but as it progresses, she slowly descends into a sort of madness.

We are told at the beginning of the story that the woman has a nervous condition which seems to be nothing more than postpardum depression since she has just recently had a child. . When the story opens the woman, who has no name, speaks of her surroundings which she likes , with the exception of the room she is being forced to stay in. Her descriptions of the grounds and house itself are remarkably clear which causes one to wonder why it is she is brought to that house because of a nervous condition she is said to have. She ...

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