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Postpartum Depression In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is suffering from postpartum depression. The narrator's husband, John, who is also her doctor, recommends the rest cure to help lift the narrator of her depressive state and ultimately cure her depression. Through the rest cure that John imposes, the narrator is not mentally simulated because she is confined in room all day to rest. However, the narrator writes in her journal despite the fact that it is mentally stimulating and does not let John know that she is writing. In order to cure her boredom of being confined to the same room all day she begins obsessing over the yellow wallpaper in the room trying to figure out the pattern. After analyzing the wallpaper
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