Early section
"You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?" Defines her powerlessness against medical and marital authority.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The unnamed narrator (possibly "Jane" mentioned at the end) is a young upper-middle-class woman suffering from postpartum depression, prescribed the rest cure, whose journal entries chart her psychological disintegration.
Early section
"I did write for a while in spite of them; but it DOES exhaust me a good deal -- having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition." Establishes writing as her forbidden act of self-preservation.
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