The story "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the binary relationship between oppression and freedom for women in the late 1800's. ... Gilman is showing through the narrator of this story, every women's struggle for freedom from oppression. Although the narrator clearly suffers from mental illness, Gilman's story of this wallpaper shows an underlying theme of freedom vs. oppression rather than purely a struggle with mental illness. ...

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