The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

ByCharlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Release Date: 2013-11-27
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 21 Ratings

Description

THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period.

Reviews

  • A look into forced/ ignored madness?

    4
    By regip7
    I wonder often how people with mental illness were able to survive in times when their impairments were dismissed as trivial. Just a lot of rest needed. I thought the pacing of this book was masterful. It’s a slow start that sorts of speeds up as she is falling into her obsession with the wallpaper. I’m not in love with the ending. I’d give the story a slightly higher score if I could.

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