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Unreliable Narrator In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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A first-person narrator is a character who is part of the story often the leader, protagonist, the main character. An unreliable narrator is a first-person narrator who is not trustworthy. The narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a woman who suffers from postpartum depression and sees someone trying to get free from behind the wallpaper in her bedroom. Unfortunately, she is an unintended, unreliable narrator due to her depression. The entire story is told from first-person point-of-view, and so there is no way of knowing whether the narrator is telling the exact story.

The first line of “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells us both the setting of the story and the story’s narrator, “It is very seldom that mere ordinary
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