A Woman Behind The Wallpaper."
Analyzing a literary work, I have always considered setting of the story to be primarily for a reader to picture the events more vividly. However, recently I have discovered that setting often plays an important role in the development of the plot and characters of the story. Besides time and place of a literary work, setting can include social, psychological or spiritual state of the characters. Therefore setting of the story is capable of not only creating a certain atmosphere, but also help characters change, come to a realization of something, or behave a certain way. The setting of the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" has a direct influence on the development of the plot and the main character of the story.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" introduces a reader to a young lady, suffering from a major depression. She is prescribed a "rest cure", so her husband, a physician himself, rents a house "a colonial mansion, a......
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