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Analyzing 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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realism regarding the inherent damage done to women because of those limitations. The report takes the position that the narrator prefers insanity to the layers of confinement she experiences at  the hands of her husband. No additional sources. BWwpaper.wps His "Little Girl" Escapes through Insanity By: C.B. Rodgers - September  2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction The haunting short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  (1860-1935), is both a feminist exploration of the ways in which women of Gilmans time were limited to a very narrow definition of what was socially acceptable for them and  a declaration of realism regarding the inherent damage done to women because of those limitations. The narrator describes experiencing a "nervous condition" while on "vacation" with her doctor husband.  In reality, the vacation is a complete confinement. She is isolated "three miles from the village" (11) in what was a nursery on the upper floor of a "colonial mansion"  (9). The room the narrator is kept in has bars on the windows and is decorated with yellow wallpaper that both repels and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described  as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) conceivable. Her isolation and the control exercised over her prove to be enough to drive an artistic and articulate  woman insane. Of course it is not the wallpaper itself that is responsible for her descent into madness but the circumstances that both physically and mentally keep her confined.  Craziness as Triumph The fragile nature of the narrators psyche is repeatedly pointed out to the reader in how she views and even interacts with the yellow wallpaper in