... 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 free symbolized her fight for independence. Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. However, Kate Chopin was different from Gilman because ... sxhe never joined or supported organizations through which women fought to gain political, economic, and social rights equal to those ... of men. At the same time they both felt that ... ...

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