... once, with sudden, wild abandonment" (Mays 476), but then she comes to see and feel what it would be like to be a widow and free from marriage oppression. However, her freedom is taken away when she then finds out that her husband didn't die. Therefore, because of the shock, according to the doctor, she dies of "heart disease – of joy that kills" ... stimulation", which included reading, writing or taking care of her new baby ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). As a treatment for her "temporary nervous depression", the unnamed protagonist's husband, John, takes her to a summer house where...

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