Crazed nature: ecology in The Yellow Wall-Paper.(Critical essay)

The Explicator | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

In her 1916 essay "The 'Nervous Breakdown' of Women," Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses an ecological conceit to explain how the modern working classes of her age are stressed by their "acromegalous" (i.e., fearfully large and disproportionate) urban surroundings. The nature of our jobs, she argues, should carry a sense of purpose so that we feel our work is "necessary and right." But moral, decent labor is not the complete recipe for a psychologically sound modern person: 

 
  Even if the physico-psychic balance is perfect, there remains another 
  necessity for peace of ...

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