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This 5 page paper considers the issues of insecurity, anxiety about her ability to write and issues surrounding self-presentation as they are defined in Charlotte Perkins Gillman's Yellow Wallpaper. This paper reflects the personal elements that are Gilman's in this work and defines the link between Gilman's characterization of the wife and her own personal experiences as they demonstrate her inherent struggles and her own insecurity in the process of asserting her feminist ideologies. No additional sources cited.
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this short story is also the demonstration of Gilmans own insecurities, her anxieties about her ability to write following her being committed to a sanitarium, and her capacity for self
presentation. Through her struggle to support her integrated view of the narrator, Gilman clearly gives away the role that she plays in defining the characteristics of the narrator and
the complicity that exists between the author and her characterization as they serve to present her anxieties and self-recrimination. The central elements of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story are
based on her own treatment in a 19th century sanitarium, during which time the author was required to refrain from writing. Her account of this experience through the development
of her character of the narrator/wife, and her evaluation of the process a woman goes through as she moves towards a state of madness due to male oppression and institutional
perceptions of the irrationality of women defines the level at which Gilmans personal experience is reflected in her work. Gilman relates her own reluctance to begin writing,
her own anxieties about her ability and her capacity for self-presentation through the depiction of the narrator/wife and her experiences in defining both sanity and insanity and the limitations placed
on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on the role of women,
the author retreats from her successful attempt at gaining her freedom, and instead struggles even after she is set free to determine her own worth in light of what has
occurred and to reduce her own anxieties about her capacity to articulate perspectives on feminist through, based on her unsurity about her capacity for self-presentation. As a result, the
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