The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's the yellow wallpaper

Why does the heroine say that his profession is perhaps... one reason I do not get well faster

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The husband belongs to a patriarchal and misogynistic culture of medicine. Emotion in women is seen as "hysteria" or a mental disturbance. The narrator feels her husband, being a doctor, impedes her health rather than improving it.

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