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Women in Society

During the Realism period, authors often documented real-life situations through their works of literature. Much of the prose written during this period commented on social conditions. Charlotte Perkins Gilman accomplishes this task in her work, The Yellow Wallpaper. She writes how the social conditions during her time treated women. Women were imprisoned by their roles as wife and mother and were chastised if they wanted to work outside of the home. This discussion will show how social conditions were unfavorable towards women in Gilman’s time.

The prose starts out with a seemingly sane woman who has been diagnosed with a nervous disorder and has been “forbidden to ‘work’ until” (Baym et. al 508) she is well. Gilman uses this analogy as a reflection of her own mental illness she suffered from after the birth of her daughter. Mental illness was misunderstood in those days so doctors would order women to stay in bed which usually......

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