Opening section
"I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind." The journal as the only confidant available.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The act of writing the story itself is the narrator's secret rebellion against John's prohibition, making the text we read a clandestine document.
Early section
"There comes John, and I must put this away, -- he hates to have me write a word." The act of hiding the pen dramatizing female creative suppression.
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