In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Mrs. ... Miss Lawrence, you don't know men" (Gilman 511). ... In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the speaker accepts that her husband's parental treatment is in her best interest. Her husband has diagnosed her with a nervous condition, and although she does not agree with him she feels that "If a physician of high standing...assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression...what is one to stay" (Gilman 480). ...

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