The Yellow Wallpaper Oppression

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In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” it reveals the oppression women had gone through during that time period, but then escaping from the confinements of men's hold against them. The narrator is the woman whose only job was to sleep in bed all day, not to write, not to strain herself from the bedroom. She listens to her husband’s requests because of his doctoral status, thus making it difficult for her to really do as she pleases; she doesn’t want her husband to stress. The yellow wallpaper is a hideous horrid thing that she hates at first, but as she continues to stay in that room she less disgusted when she sees the patterns and the woman in the wall, who is in relation of her situation. Towards the end of their three month stay she’s suspicious with everyone including her “loving” husband messing with her wallpaper, not wishing for anyone else to figure out the pattern of the wallpaper, but her. …show more content…

He restricts her from certain actions she wishes to do to stimulate her mind, and only stops her to tell her she’s not able to do so based on her condition, “I sometimes fancy that in my condition of I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.” She feels guilty about what her husband's feelings of being upset at her, thus hiding the things she wishes to do even with her

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