Yellow Wallpaper
Told in the first person narrative, we witness the descent into madness
of a young middle-class woman and her treatment by a neglectful husband.
One can also gather insight into the issues of marriage, divorce,
patriarchal oppression of and medical treatment of women in the 19th
century. However, the `New Woman’ was emerging beyond her traditional
duties as wife and mother, and Gilman, dealing with her own issues of neurasthenia and forced to take a `rest cure’ penned “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” twenty years
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