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Oppression Of Women In Karen Ford's The Yellow Wallpaper

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Finally, the yellow wallpaper plays the biggest role in the story. Not only for the reason that the narrator saw a woman behind it. But for the reason that the woman behind the yellow wallpaper was Perkins. According to the narrator "And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern."(Perkins 532),"I don't like it a bit"(Perkins 532), Trying to send out the moral of the story which was gender oppression. About, how man held woman incarcerated in a prison just like the women stuck in the wallpaper and its patterns as the bars of a jail. Karen Ford is from Tulsa Studies in Women’s literature. Ford discusses the importance of the yellow wallpaper and the meaning behind it. Ford, speaks about the wallpaper

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