The Yellow Wallpaper | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Research literature on hysteria and other "women's problems" published at the end of the 1800s and relate them to "The Yellow Wallpaper."
2. Read Gilman's autobiography The Living of Charlotte Perkins (1935) and compare her real-life experience with depression to that of the protagonist in "The Yellow Wallpaper."
3. Investigate current understanding of postpartum depression. How do healthcare professionals treat women today for this condition? In what ways is it the same or different from the rest-cure prescribed for the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
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