... . Gilman has suffered an extreme mental depression as the result of psychiatric treatments, prior to writing this short story. The author identifies herself with this character. Gilman herself admits this as truth when in an essay entitled "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper", she states, "It is a description of ... does not want to admit it, even to herself" (Weinstein 211). Also taken somewhat to this speculation is Eugenia C. Delamotte, who discusses more passively by saying, "The narrator, indeed, looks at an ordinary house and wishes, romantically, that it were haunted" (Delamotte 20...

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