... , and devote their lives to creating a nurturing home environment" (Norton 108). However, the tensions between old and new, traditional and untraditional, were great during the last years of the nineteenth century and there was a debate among male and female writers and social thinkers as to what the role of women should be. Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about ... to this room, she is a prisoner to her marriage also. Her developing insanity is a form of rebellion and a way to gain her own independence. Her struggle to set the woman in the wallpaper...

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