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patriarchal oppression in the yellow wallpaper

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While this treatment was believed to be the miracle cure for such ailments throughout the medical community, most of the victims of the treatment felt quite differently, and in many situations, oppressed. Gilman uses this story to make a feminist statement about the inability of the patriarchal medical profession at the time to properly treat what was probably post-mortem depression...
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Early on in the story she states, "there is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies?" There are a few disturbing messages in the quotation...
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