Gender Inequality In 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

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The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” the ending seemed somewhat confounding to most readers and in the end the ending sort of meant different things to other people. To myself, the ending generally meant that the main character, Mary, was finally free and the wallpaper portrayed how she really felt which was trapped. Like the woman in the wallpaper, Jenny seemed to feel trap and this also allowed her mental illness to keep progressing. I do believe that she was actually very ill in the head and part of that was being away from her children. There is somewhat of a gender inequality at the time this short story took place and that seemed as if another driving issue for her mental illness. Mary also showed are very perplexing and contemplative

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