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Ep 053 - The Yellow Wallpaper / The Lottery

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's the Doctor

Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes it pretty clear how she feels about marriage. She says a wife should be expected to be laughed at when she is married by her husband because women are silly and flighty and prone to hysteria. And so he's kind of set up as the antagonist, even though, you know,Because she's so unreliable, it's difficult to tell whether he has ill will toward her or not.

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