Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."

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<span>Based on this excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper", the statement which describes the gothic element reflecting the social attitude during Gilman's time is "The image of the woman trying to escape contributes to the idea that the narrator feels trapped and unable to control her fate."</span>

Minchanka [31]2 years ago

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The image of the woman trying to escape contributes to the idea that the narrator feels trapped and unable to control her fate.

The woman trying to escape from the wallpaper is representative of the narrator feeling trapped in her own life. This was a social issue of Gilman's time. The idea that women were trapped in their homes as a housewife unable to control their own fate. While option C does talk about supernatural forces which can be an element of gothic literature, the answer does not reflect a social attitude. Option A and B are just wrong.

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