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What aspects of setting (physical, geographical, historical) are important in the Yellow Wallpaper short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

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300 words of personal notes and textual evidence briefly explicate setting nuances in the Yellow Wallpaper.

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Physical, historical, and socioeconomic aspects of setting are important in "The Yellow Wallpaper" short story, making the house and room highly evocative to the narrator's emotional, physical, mental, and social deterioration as she explains, "I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! ...

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