The short paragraphs in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," are important to understand the narrator's state of mind. When paragraphs are shortened and sentences repeat themselves, this reveals the narrators madness or mania escalating. She can't express extended thoughts and what she says is hardly coherent. Gilman uses language to reflect what is occurring in the narrator's mind. Though the narrator is writing or...
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