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The Ironic Figure In Willy Loman's The Yellow Wallpaper

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One can take the more literal approach and see the figure as an actual being that roams the wallpaper of the nursery, while a more open approach would be to view it as a figment of the antagonist’s imagination, perhaps a side effect of one of her multiple prescriptions (648) or the result of being isolated, devoid of human contact for such an extended period of

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