Final passage
The narrator creeping over John's fainted body has been read as victory (she overcomes patriarchal authority), defeat (she is irretrievably mad), and gothic doubleness (both at once).
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Critics fiercely debate whether the ending depicts the narrator's tragic descent into madness, her triumphant feminist liberation, or both simultaneously.
Final lines
The name "Jane" appearing only in the last sentence has generated extensive scholarship about whether the narrator names herself for the first time, or speaks of Jennie.
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