The Story Behind "The Yellow Wallpaper" "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a vivid, autobiographical short story of clinical depression and the struggle for selfhood, written by an early feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ... Gilman writes "The Yellow Wallpaper" in hopes of showing S. ... The room that Gilman stays in is an old nursery. ... "When I really get well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillowcase as to let me have those stimulating people about now." ... Because of this, Gilman becomes more increasin...

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A Critical Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper- "The Yellow Wall-Paper,"" a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was published in 1892, a time when a woman was supposed to be seen and not heard. ... "The Yellow Wall-Paper- is often considered Gilman's "masterpiece."" ... Gilman uses many different forms of imagery to show her spiral transgress to the other side. ... For example, when she asks to visit "Cousin Henry and Julia-(Gilman "Yellow- 174), he says that she is not able to go, and she would not be able to stand it after she got there. ... That is ...

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