She spends most of her time in a room with yellow wallpaper and very little to occupy her mind with. ... Then she locks herself in the room and throws the keys out of the window. ... John imprisons her in a room that has no escape with bars on the windows and an immovable bed which is "nailed down." ... Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. ... Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman held different views on motherhood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School