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The Yellow Wallpaper Sojourner Truth once said If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again Women during the 19th century were not treated as equally as men During this era women were domesticated thought to be submissive and attend to all household needs In the The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman it reveals the psychological tale of woman during the nineteenth century Gilman conveys the distinction between the functions of the female and the power of a male with a prestigious position The Yellow Wallpaper simply shows the subordination of a pregnant who is trying to project the importance of self expression In the beginning of the Yellow Wallpaper the narrator Jane automatically shows the oppression of her marriage with her husband John If a physician of high standing and one's own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with the one but temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency what is one to do 297
