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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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What can you infer about the narrator and her ideas about marriage based on her remarks?

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The narrator is trapped in a patriarchal marriage, in which her physician husband makes all the decisions for her and calls her a "silly goose" when she complains.

However, we can infer that she would prefer a marriage founded on companionship in which she and her husband John are equal partners. For instance, she states that

It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.

We learn that she left is alone quite a bit because John often goes to town for work, which makes her unhappy. She would clearly prefer more company from her husband.

We can also infer that the narrator disagrees strongly with how her husband is choosing to treat her mental breakdown, which is probably due to post-partum depression. When John says that if she doesn't improve soon, she'll be put into the hands of Weir Mitchell (a real-life doctor who worked with mental illness), she states she doesn't like the idea:

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The narrator doesn't seem to have a bias. He gives all characters a fair description and seems quite objective in his regard of