Why Blame John?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" has been historically viewed as either a work of supernatural horror or as a feminist treatise regarding the role of women in society. A close analysis of Gilman's use of symbols reveals "The Yellow Wallpaper" as her response to the misogynist view of hysteria from ancient times through the nineteenth century. " In "The Yellow Wallpaper" Gilman questions the validity of Hippocrates's theory of the wandering uterus and …showed first 75 words of 3324 total…

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