![]() ![]() He starts believing that his benefactor’s eye is evil and murders him because of it, a delusion that is consistent with the description by Owen et al. In the second story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, the unnamed main character also likely has schizophrenia. ![]() Ultimately, she starts believing that she is the person she created as part of her delusions: “’ I’ve got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane?” (Gilman 656). Her husband and brother, both physicians, fail to notice her mental decline, possibly because she internalized her issues, as women are prone to doing (Needham and Terrence 1472). In the first story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main character, who may be named Jane, has schizophrenia, as indicated by her progressing delusion. ![]()
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