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"The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological problems, and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling t ....

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.... is to believe this to be the initial sign that the feminist perspective will be presented throughout. The narrator shows how although she has a formed opinion, she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad." Her husband seems to be the one who can change her thoughts because of the fact that he is her husband. Never the less, a member of the opposite sex is still suppressing her. The narrator also speaks ma ....