relates her story to her fictional writing when she even includes the name of her real life doctor, Weir Mitchell, in her work as well when she writes how John, threatens her that he will send her back to him if she doesn’t “pick up faster”(Gilman, 1101). Gilman relives her traumatic breakdown through her writing when she illustrates the room that John, a character for her real husband, locks her up in. She describes the room as “dull”, “irritating”, and with “unheard of contradictions”. Gilman portrays…
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