In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" Jane is naturally the victim and sympathetic character in this story created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ... Readers can experience this because of Gilman's "own experiences with a 'rest cure'" (Witalec 1), bleeding into the story. ... Instead Jane is forced to suffer in silence as John laughs at her "of course, but one expects that" (Gilman 473). ... If you recall, Gilman wrote this story as a critique to medical practices with the rest cure and was based on her experiences. ... Leaving Gilman's point ver...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The majority of works written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman were written as "forceful statements of her opinions on women's need for economic independence and social equality" (151). ... These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... Considering some background information on Gilman, one can easily draw the conclusion that the story is actually a reflection of personal experience. Gilman has suffered an extreme mental depression as the result of psychiatric treatments, prior to writing this short story. ... Weir Mi...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate