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Original Title: The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Story
ISBN: 1558611584 (ISBN13: 9781558611580)
Edition Language: English
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The Yellow Wall-Paper Paperback | Pages: 64 pages
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Title:The Yellow Wall-Paper
Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 64 pages
Published:September 1st 1996 by The Feminist Press at CUNY (first published January 10th 1892)
Categories:Classics. Short Stories. Fiction. Horror. Feminism. Gothic. Academic. School

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‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’ Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America’s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.

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This is not a happy story not even in the slightest. Our protagonist and her husband and sister-in-law are spending 3 months in a rented home during renovations of their own home. The woman recently had a baby and has not been able to recover her energy nor the will to accomplish anything. She is a writer but her husband, a physician, tells her not to write because it will only add to her fanciful state of being.On the one hand, he is very controlling and his wife sees that as a display of

This book stands out in my mind mainly because of an argument I had with our English teacher that lasted the length of an entire English class, over whether or not the room was actually originally a childrens' playroom, or some kind of sinister crazy-wife-locking-up-room.My argument: "She's an unreliable narrator! And why would a children's playroom have weird metal rings on the walls and bars on the windows?"Her argument: "Yes, but she says it's a childrens' playroom."My counter-argument: "BUT

This is my second read of this story, and I gave it four stars this time. It's a very well-written story. Ms. Gilmore crafted this tale in such a way that you feel as twisted as the narrator does. It's clear that mental illness plays a major role in the mindset of the narrator. But, there is a little shred of doubt (at least in my mind) that there might be some otherworldly component. It's hard to tell, because we are seeing things through her perceptions, which are clearly not rational.I think

I was reminded of this little piece by a fellow reviewer and while I read it way back in college, several things still stick in my mind. First, the prevalent psychology of Freud during the time-period: This novel portrays the kind of circular thinking that could happen to anyone in that particular time and station. Any person of a protected, apparently weak, and especially underclass station could find the confines so stifling that it might break their mind. Of course, this isn't to say that

A story on how some well-meant intentions can have the worst possible consequences. What I didn't like here was the too sinuous structure of the plot - we see a lot of raving, some fantasies and a bit of reflection of real life. Still, we have no background on anything and this book could have a lot of different twists hidden from us. Due to this it read a bit weird: some gal going crazy about wallpapers supposedly doing sneaky stuff, some guy forbidding his supposedly healthy wife any sort of

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."Oscar Wildes alleged final words. International Womens Day is perfect for reviewing this chilling short story, written by a utopian feminist in 1890. (Yes, I opened with Wilde, but I couldnt resist, and he was also a victim of sexually-related prejudice.) The Story Johns wife. Jennies sister-in-law. A babys mother. She is anonymous. She writes furtively. She is physically and mentally weak from temporary

Clever, eerie little story, which I highly recommend to anyone who thinks that depending on a caring spouse is all you need to be happy. Sometimes it's not, and it even can be harmful ; especially if your wallpaper happens to be yellow.