Point of View in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

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English

 

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September 26, 2015

 

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This is for the simple reason that the issue of authorship is under debate. The reader is led to believe that the narrator is telling her own story; one similar yet slightly different from the one Gilman herself experienced. Given that this is the case, how can one be sure of the author's intent? Is the reader meant to assume that the story is autobiographical or are they to question the validity and the reality of the narrator's statements? My supposition is that the reader is meant to be unsure of the narrator's reliability...
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This may be by Gilman's intent or by circumstance. By drawing heavily on her experiences, it is easy to at least argue that she may have been ?too close' to the story and therefore, could not write objectively. In other words, it seems quite reasonable to assume that Gilman could have taken her own story, her own diary written during her ?rest cure,' and added to it to produce "The Yellow Wallpaper...
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