RIKU:
I think the point of Charlotte Perkins Gilmar's "The Yellow
Wall-paper" is a lot bigger than just criticizing how
medicine was practiced in the 19th century. It's about how
women are expected to hand over all their power to men
when they get married, even if it ends up harming them.
EDGAR
Yeah, but why does Gilman go into so much detail about
how her husband is a doctor? His treatments are really the
main problem. He's not controlling in any other way.
RIKU
There's a reason the doctor is also the main character's
husband though. That's not just a coincidence.
MARIA:
A story doesn't have to just be about one thing. The poem
we read by Walt Whitman had about eight billion themes in
it, so Gilman's story can have at least two.
VICTOR
Good point. So we can agree that "The Yellow Wall-paper
is a criticism of 19th-century medicine and a pro-feminist
story
Which student is most clearly synthesizing the claims of the discussion into a
single conclusion?