... ways, more traumatic than the actual process. Postpartum depression is an important psychological obstacle that women across the world have to conquer after they give birth. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her personal battle with postpartum depression to create a powerful story shining a light on the trials women in the nineteenth century had to face while living in this misogynistic society ... . The unequal relationship between the narrator and her husband, John, symbolizes the looming gender inequity in society during this period. Gilman makes it clear that muc...

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