... she does, she speaks of her baby with love, "There's one comfort, the baby is well and happy, and does not have to occupy this nursery with this horrid wall-paper." Charlotte Perkins Gilman sees motherhood to be essential for women's lives. Edna, on the other hand, understands "that her role of a mother also makes impossible for her continuing development as ... own urges and desires. In the final scene when John faints and she creeps over him she says, "I've got out at last! And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put be back!" She achieved her independence and does not nee...

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