... 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 that oppresses the middle- and upper-class women of her time. The story's main character is the ... stimulus;" she yearns for "advice and companionship about [her] work" (her writing, apparently) or the company of cousin Henry and Julia ("stimulating people"). But then, as though learning to accept that...

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