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Yellow Wallpaper by CP Gilman
My dearest brother John
I hope that this letter finds you well, dear brother. I am writing you now because I do not know if I can bravely tell you personally how I have experienced distraught and felt troubled because of the seemingly worsening condition of your beloved wife.
I have just visited her this evening for her supper, giving her the special dinner that we only prepare for her, to soother her nerves and make her feel better. I cannot help but observe how she seem to 'look' worse and worse everyday. This morning, as I tried to fix her bed, she just kept on staring at nothing, almost to a point that she looked at the space so intently that it terrified me. At times, though, I can see her looking helplessly around her, while talking to me in a calm voice and composed manner. But I could see it in her eyes, John. She is just going through feelings of fear and helplessness, and her calmness is so bothering I believe it is not a sign of improvement of her condition, but a sign of resignation, surrender of the kind of life we have given her.
What I have told you are just my feelings and opinion, John. Though I am do not know exactly what is ailing your wife, I do know -- as a woman's intuition would know -- that your wife is not happy being alone in that room everyday, treated like a patient with a horrifying, yet undetermined, 'disease.' I can feel the hurt in her as she only see glimpses of her children every day, and nothing of the life that we experience everyday. I beg you, dear brother, to consider changing the form of treatment you have been giving her. I believe that allowing her to live the life she used to live will restore the energy and happiness that she had before this unfortunate, undetermined illness has taken over her. Dear brother, I will wait for your response to my letter, and I hope that your love for your wife will make you reconsider he treatment, and free her from that dreadful room, and let her be your wife again, and a mother to your children.
Your dear sister,
Jennie
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