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"The Madwoman in the attic expresses how women are perceived by men in two categories, monsters or angels. Women are faced with determining their identities as a writer in the 19th century. In this book Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert analyze women's identity in female authors’ works of fiction and poetry. In this time period women were seen as submissive or uncontrollable in the eyes of men which it was written from. The authors discuss the work other female writers throughout the 700 pages. Gilbert and Gubar saw these women using writing as an outlet for their anger and frustration they felt trying to fit in a "mans world". Women felt they had to stay within certain boundaries as writers in order to not be criticized by the male writers in this time period.