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A Woman Indefinitely Plagued: The Truth Behind The Yellow Wallpaper
In The Yellow Wallpaper, a young woman and her husband rent out a country house so the woman can get over her "temporary nervous depression." She ends up staying in a large upstairs room, once used as a "playroom and gymnasium, […] for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls." A "smoldering unclean yellow" wallpaper, "strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight," lines the walls, and "the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes [that] stare at you upside down." The husband, a doctor, uses S. Weir Michell's "rest cure" to treat her of her sickness, and he directs her to live isolated in this strange room. The nameless woman tells the reader through diary entries that she feels a connection to the yellow wallpaper and fancies that an imprisoned woman shakes the pattern. The narrator's insanity is finally apparent when she writes, "There are so......

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