The story opens with the voice of a nameless protagonist whose only identity is being the wife of Dr. The present article is an exploration of how the very perceptive protagonist is put into a difficult situation by her physician husband and how she is able to cope with that. In a previous article, “Charlotte Perkins Gilman, apostle of women’s liberation,” (2019) published in Hektoen International, George Dunea speaks at length on how Perkins’ writings are peppered with ambivalence about men, mostly holding some scientific or medicinal authority on the female protagonist. CC BY 2.0.Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her short story The Yellow Wallpaper in nineteenth-century America when gendered norms prevailed in society at large and notably in medicine. Yellow Wallpaper Art: A Bowl with “The House”~ Tower, the Yellow Room. The Yellow Wallpaper: the flawed prescription August 18, 2020
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