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The purpose of the following study is to recognize and address postpartum depression and its effect on women psyche. To analyze the postpartum depression, the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper’ by the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman has been considered. Gillman’s protagonist highlights various traumas of a mother and its impact in the relationship with other people and society. In this study, relational lens has been applied to the grounded theory of Postpartum depression which approves that the human relations fail not because of misfortune or misunderstanding of words but due to their silence in relation.
There are mainly two primary aims of this study, taken from ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ The first aim seeks to explain the importance of acceptance as perceived by the female protagonist. Secondly, the paper seeks to explain the women psyche as a result of silence and loneliness in marriage. It is evident that one cannot deny or ignore the mental traumas after or during pregnancy. Family members try to comfort the mother by providing various material facilities but unconsciously push her to postpartum depression. From a feminist’s point of view, replacing loneliness with material comforts as a system is essentially evil. In fact woman needs to be listened and loved as she goes through various hormonal and mental transformations.
The story reveals that the protagonist fails to live up to the standards of ‘good mother’ and, women have shared the experiences that these negative feelings could neither be spoken nor understood by other members in the family. Women not only survive depression but also become guilty of being useless in relationship. Conclusions emphasize the need of therapy through communication that address their identity crisis and value their importance in family.
"Silence in Marriage: A qualitative study of Postpartum Depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman`s `The Yellow Wallpaper`", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 7, page no.1709 - 1710, August-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2207294.pdf
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