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The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis

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“The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a deep short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a first person narrative that surrounds the nervous mind of a mother who recently had a child; and her eventual slip into madness. It is easy to see the changes in her grammar, structure, and opinions as time goes on. The narrator disagrees with the other characters. “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.” (Gilman 1670). Perhaps she is right, but the reader cannot accurately judge what is best in this situation; considering these are the words of a woman with a hysterical nervous disorder. The reader can observe an obvious change in her self-confidence. She begins as a doubtful woman who relies on her
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