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It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women’s physical and mental health. Told in the first-person perspective as a series of journal entries, the story details the unreliable narrator’s descent into madness. The protagonist’s husband, John, believes it is in the narrator’s best interest to go on a rest cure, since he only credits what is observable and scientific. He serves as his wife’s physician, treating her like a powerless patient. The story hints that part of the woman’s problem is that she recently gave birth to a child, insinuating she may be suffering from what would now be called postpartum psychosis.

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