"The Yellow Wallpaper"
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"The Yellow Wallpaper": A Fuming Relationship or What?
"The Yellow Wallpaper", begins with the central character, Jane, who has just given birth to a baby boy. Even though for most mothers a newborn child is a merry time, for some, like Jane, it becomes a tiresome disturbing period that is now popularly understood to be the common disorde; postpartum depression. For example, Jane describes herself as feeling a "lack of strength" (Gilman, 3) and as becoming "
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she is able to "creep by daylight" and even to question aloud the reasons for the actions of those around her. Jane now feels competent of wondering about John, "Now why should that man have fainted?" and still remains strong enough in her new sense of identity to "creep over him" (Gilman, 129). In just a matter of some seconds, Jane triumphs, in the sense that she literally walks all over her fuming Husband and doctor.
she is able to "creep by daylight" and even to question aloud the reasons for the actions of those around her. Jane now feels competent of wondering about John, "Now why should that man have fainted?" and still remains strong enough in her new sense of identity to "creep over him" (Gilman, 129). In just a matter of some seconds, Jane triumphs, in the sense that she literally walks all over her fuming Husband and doctor.