Jennie, the Sister-in-Law

From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John's sister Jennie serves as housekeeper and warden, representing the domestic ideal that the narrator cannot achieve and complicit female enforcement of patriarchal norms.
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"She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!" Jennie as embodiment of the domestic role denied to the narrator.

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