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Wife Subordination Depicted in Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper Last document update:   ago

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," published in 1892, sheds light on the subordination of women in marriage and the detrimental effects of such subordination on their mental health. Gilman's protagonist, an unnamed woman, finds herself confined to a room with yellow wallpaper, which becomes a symbol of her oppression and eventual descent into madness.