This is one of my favorite stories
to read. The reason for this is because
you are able to really understand how desperate Gilman, or any woman deemed
“sick” became. I appreciate how the
wallpaper became a reflection of her thoughts about her life. For many years that was all I thought about
this story. However this is the second
quarter in a row that I have had a professor use this story as part if the class.
What is exciting about this is that
one was a sociology class, the other this class. In the sociology class this story was used to
show how a woman who became one of the first woman sociologist from the
responses she received from the public and how that shaped her future writing
and thinking. That combined with the
information presented about the era Gilman lived in and more information about
her actual treatment really opened my eyes to this story. Before I was oblivious the cry of help and
change that is laced all through out the story of this seemingly innocent
wallpaper.
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