1. The Subversive Message of the "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
... home but then reasons that "that would asking too much of fate!" Further suggesting her resigned, pessimistic view of connubial life, the physician's wife mentions that he often laughs at her for her differing thoughts but that "one expects that in marriage." Although she, herself, makes it clear ... admits that writing does exhaust her quite a bit but explains that it is because she is "having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition." She fancies she would feel better if only she faced "less opposition and more society and stimulus;" she yearns for "advice and companio...
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