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The Yellow Wallpaper Satire

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After reading “The Yellow Wall Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. You couldn’t help, but see Jane’s spiral downward into more absurd observations, from her acting even more crazy, to her constant ramblings and obsession about the wallpaper, to her constant returning to her moral conscience of being a good wife to John, Jane had quite the ordeal in this house and in her mind. As Jane said “I think that woman gets out in the daytime! And I’ll tell you why--privately--I’ve seen her! I can see her out of every one of my windows!” Jane appears to be slipping further and further off the deep end, as her statements become more absurd. This is a sad state of affairs as back in the 1900’s people did not know how to treat mentally ill people. Silly
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