The main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jane, is mentally ill. The story, written in first person epistolary style, is rife with dramatic irony because of its unreliable narrator. Readers have to ferret out the true psychological condition from what Jane says and from what she doesn't exactly say. At the beginning of the story, Jane suffers from what today's mental health professionals would term post-partum depression. The baby isn't...
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