The Yellow Wallpaper Contradiction

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In the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, readers can easily find that the husband takes “good” care of the narrator who suffers from nervous prostration and the narrator obeys her husband, like a child in kindergarten. Their life is similar to the yellow wallpaper, which is a common decoration and has a warm, bright, and cheery color to represent the ideal middle class daily life in that time. However, these false appearances indicate that the contradictions and conflicts are hidden. Although the yellow wallpaper just barely maintains a kind of unfair yet harmonious relationship between the narrator and her husband, it eventually becomes a hideous pattern and spreads a disgusting odor as well as forms an invisible and intolerable image of

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