The Yellow Wallpaper

First Published In In The New England Magazine, The Yellow Wallpaper Is One Of The First Prominent Literary Works Of The Feminist Movement In The United States, Paving The Way For AGeneration Of Women That Would Dedicate Their Lives To Gender EqualityGilman Strived To Remodel The Roles Of Women In Marriages, Distraught By The Oppression Of Their Creativity And Intellectual PotentialFurthermore, The Compelling Story Of The Yellow Wallpaper Is Thought To Have Been Influenced By Her Own Personal Experiences With Depression, Only Aggravated By The Presence Of Her Child And Her HusbandReferred To DrSWeir Mitchell To Cure Her Condition, She Was Obliged To Live In APeriod Of Mental Inactivity For Some Time, Refrained From Any Intellectual Work And Forced To Implicate Herself More In Domestic AffairsThis Only Led Her Deeper Into Depression And Pushed Her To Her Breaking Point, Clutching Rag Dolls And Crawling Under Beds And Into Closets.
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