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At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.Read in Books4Free →
The Woman Behind the Pattern
From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The figure the narrator perceives trapped behind the wallpaper's bars is her doubled self, the suppressed woman emerging into consciousness.
Late section
"I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one... And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern -- it strangles so." The communal dimension of female imprisonment.
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