... wrenched out of Gilman's own life- (Afterword to "The Yellow Wallpaper" 123). This is the period when Gilman moved to California (1888), because she separated from her husband Charles Walter Stetson, and 2 years later (1890 -1892) she wrote her novel story "The Yellow Wallpaper". The narrator Charlotte Gilman lived through the depression that was mentioned in the story; she is the women in "The Yellow Wallpaper". She was not a feminist, she wrote in rage ... . She went to summer vacation home for rest therapy; however, the woman's condition worsens before she divorced from her husband, C...

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... suffered a nervous breakdown. Her husband, solitude, and her hallucinations drove her to disconnect from reality. The story is written from the character's point of view in a form resembling journal entries, which describe her stay in the house. The house itself is an old mansion, and the yellow wallpaper in the character's bedroom seems to be really disturbing. She believes that there is a woman locked behind bars ... living in the pattern of that wallpaper. She spends a lot of time trying to figure it out, and in the end she completely breaks away even from her own mind. The theme in ...

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• Grade Level: High School