"The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character And Cry For Freedom
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The short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" written by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman is a cry for freedom. This story is about a woman who
fights for her right to express what she feels, and fights for her right to
do what she wants to do. The narrator in this short story is a woman whose
husband loves h ....
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.... relief to my mind-) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well
faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!"(507) The men are under
the impression that what they say goes and therefore the woman has no
choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that
satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control.
If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It
is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel when they are superio ....
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