The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

The narrator says, "I get unreasonably angry with john sometimes" (paragraph 25). How unreasonable is her anger at him? What does the fact that she feels it is unreasonable say about her?

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The narrator feels subjugated in this patriarchal culture. She blames herself for the sexist nonsense that is forced onto her by men like her husband. She makes excuses for her husband to maintain the societal norms that she has come to believe in.

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