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Tricks a Mind Can Play
Is our perception of life always real? Do we see things as we want them or imagine things to be what they are not? Can certain life experiences, like being a new mother, lead one to be delusional, depressed, and psychotic? One woman's story is brought forth in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The woman, who is left unnamed, tells the reader that she is spending three months at a colonial estate to help her recover from what she says is "temporary nervous depression". She has just had a baby who is now left in someone else's care. Her husband John, who is her doctor as well, has deemed she do this. She takes medications all day. Her perception of the house throughout the story doesn't add up. She also has a neurosis with the wallpaper in the room she is staying. She is constantly seeing images in it. Moreover, she is convinced the house is haunted. By looking at her relationship with her so called husband and doctor, her......

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