The Yellow Wallpaper
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Intelligent writers often ridiculed, thought crazy because of their convictions, and oppressed by society come to reflect these values in their work, or more appropriately they often reject these values in their work. Such is the case with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Like the main character in her short story, Perkins Gilman underwent the now infamous rest cure of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. She was told never to touch pen, brush or pencils as long as she lived, just like the character in her story. This nearly drove the author to utter mental ruin. As she says in Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” “I went home and obeyed these directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental run that I could see over” (Perkins Gilman 1).The author decided, once she ignored the docto
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