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Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, this short but powerful masterpiece has the heroine create a reality of her own within the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wall-paper of her bedroom-a pattern that comes to symbolize her own imprisonment. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. Themes: The Subordination of Women in Marriage, The Importance of Self-Expression, The Evils of the “Resting Cure”īook Summary: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmanįirst published in 1892, The Yellow WallPaper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Major Characters: An unnamed narrator (A young, upper-middle-class married woman), John, Jennie Genre: Short Story, Feminism, Mental Health
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