Ep 053 - The Yellow Wallpaper / The Lottery
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The Rise and Fall of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a self-described feminist. She divorced her first husband in 1894, which is some like almost 100 years probably before divorce became commonly accepted in America. So how do you, does this get talked about kind of acutely in the story or are you mostly just experiencing those women's descent into madness? You're just following her descent pretty much. And then it's through contextual knowledge that you're supposed to read in the stuff about it being like criticism of certain elements of marriage and of this treatment in particular.
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