Yellow Wallpaper
Told in the first person narrative, we witness the descent into madness of a young middle-class woman and her treatment by a neglectful husband. One can also gather insight into the issues of marriage, divorce, patriarchal oppression of and medical treatment of women in the 19th century. However, the `New Woman’ was emerging beyond her traditional duties as wife and mother, and Gilman, dealing with her own issues of neurasthenia and forced to take a `rest cure’ penned “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” twenty years
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper
