Gilmans background

Gilman has a intelligent background which was a problem in the past.  A background is ones origin, education, experience, etc. Gilman was born july 3rd 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Her childhood was hard because her father abandoned her family when she was little. This effected her education since she had to move around a lot. Gilman married in 1884 to Charles Stetson.     Her husband classified her with a sickness and then fed her "medicine" for her illness. Gilman was then banished to her new room with the yellow wallpaper which made her insanely mad. She craved and wondered about the wallpaper. In the beginning of the story she had different thoughts and comments about the wallpaper. She thought that the woman in the wallpaper was trying to escape but we later figure out that wasn't the case.

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