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Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays women's roles in society and the sociological development of the 19th Century in "The Yellow Wallpaper". The narrator, faced with Post-Partum Depression, and her content, yet unequal lifestyle help to explain the society the story's setting is focused around. The rising actions and details, along with the characterization of John, all assist in further comprehending the protagonist and her reasons for insanity within this male controlled way of life.
Gilman, a feminist of the Victorian time period, expresses men as an overwhelming power to further accentuate the unequal, male dominated society the narrator is strained to be a part of. Men of the current time period are represented in the short story through John and the narrator's brother, two respected and knowledgeable doctors of the era. The Narrator explains that because she is surrounded by doctors "that is one reason I do not get well faster" (Gilman 359). Her repetitive use of the......

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