"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is not an example of crime fiction or a crime story. First, one should note that crime fiction is a genre defined by far more than the simple occurrence of a crime. Although crimes occur in many novels and plays, including Crime and Punishment, Oedipus Rex, and Hamlet, these are not considered crime stories because the main focus of the stories is not on the crime itself or its solution, but...
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