"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Resurrection of Feminism in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Ghost stories often contain mystery and confusion; however, the mystery of the ghost story is, is the narrator a ghost or a character in the story. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman decides to write this short story in narrative form; however, some reader may not depict "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a ghost story, nut may depict it as a feminist story. During the eighteenth century, women lived in a male dominated society. Gilman, however, attempts to modify this male dominated society and attempts to do so by writing "The Yellow Wallpaper." In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman describes the beginning for the uprise of women and a hope for the downfall of oppression by using symbols such as the house, the window, and the wallpaper.
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