In 1932 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and, in 1935, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of chloroform, which she viewed as preferable to death by cancer. She was married again in 1900, to her first cousin Houghton Gilman. She separated from her husband in 1888 and moved to Pasadena, California and became an active voice in the feminist movement, publishing extensively on the role of women in the household. With the use of symbolism, Gilman allows the reader to see how women were treated and how unequal society may be. The narrator is confined to a room where she was driven mad. Silas Weir Mitchell, who suggested that she focus on domestic duties and avoid intellectual activity. The Yellow Wallpaper demonstrates the nineteenth century attitudes concerning female physical and mental health. After the birth of her daughter, she suffered from post-partum depression and was prescribed an unsuccessful ‘rest-cure’ by Dr. Today's story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' arrived some time ago (1892) from Charlotte Gilman's pen the thrust is proto-feminist (an ambiguous term commonly thought to apply to pre-20th century works. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson and gave birth to their only child, a daughter. Her aunts, including prominent suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, helped to support her mother through this period. Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a difficult childhood after her father abandoned her family while she was still an infant.
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