Question

Write a summary of the following excerpt from “Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins

Answer 1

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Gilman felt very melancholy and was having a severe nervous breakdown. This mental state was maintained for three years, which made her look for a specialist in nervous diseases, who would examine her and help her to heal. The specialist stated that she did not have any serious illness, but that she needed to rest as long as she lived to be cured.

Explanation:

To make a summary of a text, you must rewrite the text in a reduced form, pointing out only the most important elements of the story. Therefore, anyone who reads the summary is able to understand the most important and relevant parts of the original text, even if they do not have many details of how it happened, since the details are presented only in the original text.

Answer 2

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Charlotte Perkins explains how she suffered from severe nervous breakdowns due to melancholia. She goes on to explain how, after three years of suffering, she went to a specialist, who told to get some rest and that nothing was wrong with her. He essentially sent her off and told her to continue suffering as she had been.

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