... write in her diary. She feels trapped inside the bedroom because it has bars on the windows and ugly yellow wallpaper, which she hates. She eventually goes insane because she starts to see people inside the wallpaper, and tries to free them by tearing down the paper. Ironically the person she is trying to free is herself. "Like most naturalists, Gilman chronicles her protagonist's psychological reactions to her extreme ... down, I believe- and follow that pattern about by the hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you"(Gilman, 1282). All night long she paces around the room trying t...

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... , Charlotte was herself suicidal and talked of guns and chloroform (105). This yellow paper on the wall is the confinement and constriction of men and society, and will eventually prove to be the death of not only the narrator, but of Gilman herself, if by no other means than her own hand. The smell that denotes the idea of suicide, seems to be an option for both women that "is ... , reading and writing, inherited from her father and great-aunt Kuhns 6 Harriet Beecher Stowe, was Gilman's salvation. Instead of going totally insane, as the narrator did in The Yellow Wallpaper or committing ...

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