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In the nineteenth century, women in literature were often portrayed as submissive to men. Literature of the period often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. "The Yellow Wallpaper" presents the tragic story of a woman’s descent into depression and madness because of this oppression. The narrator’s declining mental health is reflected through the characteristics of the house she is trapped in and her husband, while trying to protect her, is actually destroying her. The narrator of the story goes with her doctor/husband to stay in a colonial mansion for the summer. The house is supposed to be a place where she can recover from sever postpartum depression.
According to Jennifer Fleissner, "naturalist characters like the narrator of Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" is shown obsessed with the details of an entrapping interiority. In such an example we see naturalism’s clearest alteration of previous understandings of gender: its refiguration of domestic spaces, and hence, domestic identity according to the narrative of repetitive work and compulsion that had once served to distinguish public life from a sentimentary understood home" .1
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a fictionalized account of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s own post -partum depression. Gilman was a social critic and feminist who wrote prolifically about the necessity of social and sexual equality, particularly about women’s need for economic independence. According to Fleissner, "Gilman attached the nineteenth century’s configuration of private space as woman’s domain and its attendant generalizations about femininity. Gilman seeks to blur the distinction between private and public life. Gilman unflaggingly urged her audience to consider
their logic in assigning women to the home. The composition of home life altered
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1 Fleissner, Jennifer p. 59, The...
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