Representations of Female Insanity

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This paper compares and contrasts the representations of female insanity in Frank Norris? ?Mcteague? and Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper specifically looking at Trina and the narrator and how such characters fit in to the stereotypes that women were faced with at the turn of the twentieth century.

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?The end of the nineteenth century represented a time of turmoil for the American female. There was conflict about what a woman?s role was in society. Many believed that women should be a kind of angel in the house, or a true woman, one that was a virtuous and passionless moral agent. On the other hand, there was a growing movement that promoted the transition into the new woman, or a woman that had a career and could express her sexuality.?

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