The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression Of Women In Society
Beginning of paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a commentary on the
male oppression of women in a patriarchal society. However, the story itself
presents an interesting look at one woman's struggle to deal with both physical
and mental confinement. This theme is particularly thought-provoking ....
Middle of paper
.... seclusion. Even the
connecting garden represents confinement, with box-bordered paths and grape-
covered arbors. This isolation motif continues within the mansion itself.
Although she preferred the downstairs room with roses all over the windows that
opened on the piazza, the narrator finds herself relegated to an out of the way
dungeon-like nursery on the second floor, appropriately equipped with "rings and
things" in the walls. Windows in each direction provide glimpses of the gard ....
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Word count: 1296
Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
