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The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. She was married at age 24 when she became deeply depressed and ordered to bed rest. This only worsened matters when she divorced her husband and began writing and speaking in California, where she eventually died in 1935. I think that this short story tells a lot about Charlotte’s mental breakdown. It was a way for her to get all that was running around in her head out, before things got worse. I think she was trying to tell the world that mental illness could not be ignored. You cannot act as if you lead a normal life that it will just go away. The characters are the most important part to this story because that is where the focu
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Hartford Connecticut, Perkins Gilman,
Approximate Word count = 486
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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