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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1331 words (5.32 pages) in the essay titled The Yellow Wallpaper1 “The Yellow Wallpaper”: The Life and Times of an American WomanThe majority of the life that is known of Charlotte Perkins Gilman is concerned with her troubled and loveless relationships: with her mother, her father, and her daughter. These relationships are central to the life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman yet only somewhat relate to the incident in her life that sparked one of the greatest pieces of feminist literature ever written. To be able to relate to Gilman’s situation and appreciate “The Yellow Wallpaper” for how it shows women’s lives is difficult in this age where women have more freedom than ever before. Gilman’s original intent in writing the story was to gain personal satisfaction from the knowledge that shows that she was right and society was wrong in the way they treated her. But more importantly Gilman says, “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked”(Gilman, 20). When the story first came out in 1892 the critics saw “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a description of female insanity and mayhem instead of a story that reveals society’s values. The thought that any woman would go against society might as well have been insane for writing it in the first place. In the time period in which Gilman lived “The ideal woman was not only assigned a social role that locked her into her home, but she was also expected to like it, to be cheerful and gay, smiling and good humored”(Lane, 10... |
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Keywords: charlotte perkins gilman, yellow wallpaper, relationships, repercussions, freedom, feminist literature, social constraints, personal satisfaction, been insane, self expression, american woman, free thinking, original intent, loveless, ridicule