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Passage Twenty
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1860-1935
Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper was closely based on her own experience. She married at the age of twenty-four and immediately got pregnant, had a child, and fell into depression. An eminent doctor, S. Weir Mitchell, treated her with his now notorious rest cure, which was identical to Janes treatment in the story. The inevitable result, as Gilman wrote in her autobiography, was progressive insanity. She said that her own treatment drove her as far as one could go [toward insanity] and get back. After leaving her husband and moving to California, she regained her mental and physical health. When she published the story in I892, doctors praised the accuracy of its psychological depiction, and apparently, Mitchell subsequently abandoned the rest cure. This was Gilmans avowed purpose: to convince [Mitchell] of the error of his ways. Though Gilman had this narrow intention, the story has much to say about the general condition of women in late-nineteenth-century American society.
The Yellow Wallpaper
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.
Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that.
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
John is a physician, and perhaps—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to may mind)—perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.
You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?
If a physician of
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