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Why might Charlotte Perkins Gilman have written "The Yellow Wallpaper" in the first-person point of view? Gilman wanted to depict a woman’s mental breakdown naturally and objectively. Gilman wanted to appeal to her male audience to treat their wives with more respect. Gilman wanted to show a mental breakdown through the eyes of the sufferer’s loved ones. Gilman wanted to illustrate to her readers how the rest cure could seriously damage a person.

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