The Yellow Wallpaper
\"The Yellow Wallpaper\", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, criticizes the controlling relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife that pushes her from depression into insanity. Not being able to communicate with her husband as an equal seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same view is seen in her brother, who is also a physician. While this attitude, and the actions taken because of it, certainly contributed to her breakdown; it seems to me that their denial of her sickness drove her into her schizophrenic state of mind.
Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant - submissive relationship. She is literally imprisoned in her bedroom, supposedly to allow her to rest and recover her health. She is forbidden to work, she is not even supposed to write, and she was quoted as saying, “There comes John, and I must put......
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