The Setting That Drove The Woman Insane
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The Setting that Drove the Woman Insane
Many People have had something trouble them, so much that they thought they were going to go crazy if they had to look at it for just one minute. Fortunately, they were able to leave that place or situation before they stepped off that familiar ledge and went insane, but what happens when they are not able to leave that place? That is what happened to the main character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow wallpaper”; the wallpaper and other things inside and outside of her room was too much to deal with. There were also some other factors that led to her going insane: post-partum depression after having a baby and in that time period people didn’t really have knowledge of the human mind. Looking at the annoying and ugly yellow wallpaper for three months did not help in her recovery from post-partum depression also....