For the women in the twentieth century today, who have more freedom than before and have not experienced the depressive life that Gilman lived from 1860 to 1935, it is difficult to understand Gilman\'s situation and understand the significance of \"The Yellow Wallpaper\". Gilman\'s original purpose of writing the story was to gain personal satisfaction if Dr. S. Weir Mitchell might change his treatment after reading the story. However, as Ann L. Jane suggests, \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" is \"the best crafted of her fiction: a genuine literary piece...the most directly, obviously, self-consciously autobiographical of all her stories\" (Introduction xvi). And more importantly, Gilman says in her article in The Forerunner, \"It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked\" (20). Therefore, \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" is a revelation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman\'s own emotions. When the story first came out in 1892 the critics considered......
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