Although Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses a variety of literary devices in "The Yellow Wallpaper," the ones that permeate the story and make it so effective are epistolary style, irony, and the use of an unreliable narrator. In epistolary fiction, the story is told in the first person as the narrator writes letters or journal entries. In this story, Jane writes in her journal, even though she has been forbidden to. This allows the reader to...
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