"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a quasi-autobiographical story about a rest cure prescribed for what was diagnosed in her period as a "nervous disorder". The protagonist of the story is portrayed as undergoing such a cure and going slowly insane over the course of the story. As we read it, though, we begin to understand that the so-called cure resembles something like the solitary confinement of prisoners or sensory...
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