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Jennifer Smith
Gage
Composition II
October 2, 2013
The Yellow Wallpaper
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, the reader is provided with a
compatible setting and theme, which leads to a smooth plotline in the story. Through the
narration of an unnamed protagonist, the reader experiences the effects of the misguided
interpretations of a woman’s physical and mental needs that were prevalent in the time the story
was written. Setting is used as a basis of the plot because without its unique and increasingly
