Turn-of-the-century feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman sends a subversive message through her beautifully artistic, disturbing short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." By using the example of one woman's struggle -and ultimate failure- to survive her prescribed treatment for a supposed case of hysteria, Gilman demonstrates how it is nothing other than restrictive Victorian-age gender roles based on the notion of female inferiority ... mild hysteria and believes that she can only become well again with much bed rest and quiet during a summer-long stay at a rented colonial mansion on a love...

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