... , and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!" (611). Jennie does not want the narrator to express herself through her writing, which is a way to control her thoughts. Through the example of Jennie, the reader gets a sense of the creative confinement that society puts on women during this time. Although the narrator is ... you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide- plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. (609) This shows that she has a creative...

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... through the lens of progressive mental illness in The Yellow Wallpaper. The narrator finds self-expression through a fixation on the anthropomorphic transformation of the wallpaper as it parallels her own creative, yet mentally unstable metamorphosis while under the steady authoritarian control of her husband. The narrator of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" moves to the countryside for relaxation ... much expression in an inanimate thing before" (Gilman, 305). The reader can make the connection that the wall becomes expressive at the same exact time that she does (through writing)...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate