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Mental Disorders In Ernest Hemingway's The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Yellow Wallpaper In this intense and complex story the narrator, her husband, their child, and some servants moved into a large estate for the summer. The large house was both beautiful and frightening to the narrator. She was diagnosed with a nervous disorder by her husband a physician. The treatment she received only made her worse. Through isolation and neglect her illness progressed to the point that she eventually had paranoia, hallucinations, and schizophrenia. Both the main character and her child remain nameless. The troubled young woman or the narrator as I call her, was the wife of a, “physician of high standing.” She seemed to have limited interaction her infant, and the story makes few mentions of the child. It was common
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