Part one of term paper
"The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story with many interpretations and is a source of many reactions. One interpretation that appears often, is the idea that a woman who is not afraid of looking at things in an intangible sense is looked upon as some sort of "lunatic." This reason was sometimes a primary ...

Part two of term paper
... this woman into a state of depression and hallucination. Therefor, by placing a woman in the backcountry and forcing her ignore all others forms of life, is a form of abuse that needed to be expressed thought this short story. A woman that looks within the depths of a house and characterizes it as "haunted" is not evidence to lock her up and diagnose her with an illness. "A colonial mansion…I would say haunted house…but that would be asking too much of fate," shows the narrator's super ...