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"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 reason to drive a woman, not medically claimed as ill, to live in a mansion, "standing …

…diagnosis of her husband. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story that has been proven to be a story about the mental abuse many women have been subdued to during the 19th century. Not only has it been during that era, but also it continues to happen throughout society. By forcing a woman to seize her writing and her communication to members of society, it is inevitable for her to continuously decline in mental sanity.