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Oppression In The Yellow Wallpaper

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In the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the husband seems to takes "good" care of the narrator, the spouse who suffers from nervous breakdown. The narrator willingly obeys her husband, just like a child in a kindergarten. Their life is similar to the yellow wallpaper, a common decoration with its warm, bright, and cheery color, representing the norm of the middle class people. However, beneath the peace and calmness of life lie the contradictions and conflicts. The yellow wallpaper indeed reveals the weird but calm relationship between the narrator and her husband. Later it became an irregular a hideous pattern, noxious nauseous stinky odor uneven forms: all have shaped an invisible but uninviting image of oppression. It seems to drive a
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