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The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into p...more

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Published April 27th 2011 by Simon & Brown (first published 1890)

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Jan 16, 2011 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, books-about-depression, innovative-fiction

This has got to be one of the most impressive short stories ever written, up there with the very best. Written in the late 1800's, it is surprisingly modern in its form & content. When I was an undergraduate, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an undiscovered writer, but thankfully she's been very much discovered now: I've read her nonfiction ('Women and Economics'--very forward-thinking re: communal kitchens and daycare) and her utopian novel, 'Herland.' She also has some other terrific short sto...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Lynn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-contemporary

I typed the title into the search just to see if it would come up...

I had no idea that this was a classic work. I never could recall the authors name, but from the reviews I can see that I am not alone in how it still sits with me decades later. I was only 13 or 14 years old when I sat in on my aunt's college literature class. I sat in the back and the teacher gave me a black and white copy of the text so I could read along with the class. I remember the debate raged on in the class, but we rea...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of stories with lots of subtext, classic horror readers

Shelves: kindle-book, reread, psychological-horror, victorian, classic-horror, tales-to-chill-your-blood, unreliable-narrator, insane-or-mentally-ill-character, women-s-issues, epistolary-narrative, short-story-collection, gothic-fiction, 2011-reading

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...more 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 there is a powerful message here. Husbands often had way too much control over their wives. Probably still the case. The husband in this story treated his wife like she was a child. He dismissed her thoughts and needs, and constantly told her what was best for her. He didn't treat her like a partner. I think that his treatment of her played a role in her deterioration.

I read about the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, on Wikipedia. She was a feminist who crusaded to help women in the time period in which she lived. I could see how she masterfully threaded some real-life themes into this story. It would give any reader something to think about, and I imagine it made a few people, particularly men, angry at the time in which it was published.

This is considered a feminist work. I don't think that you have to be a feminist to appreciate this message. As an egalitarian, I definitely felt this message. I felt sympathy for this woman. I think that she felt caged in and didn't have her needs met, and something inside of her twisted until she left sanity behind. It's quite a sad thing that the people who loved her contributed by their gentle neglect. If she had been listened to, and really heard, maybe things would have gone differently.

This is just my perception of this story. No doubt, a different reader will glean a dissimilar meaning from this work. In my opinion, The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that should be read more than one time. I feel I encountered more subtext and layers upon the second read. I'll keep it on my Kindle, because it's one I would like to revisit.(less)

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Dec 08, 2011 Bonnie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Bonnie by: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die

Shelves: 1001, anthologies-and-short-stories, adult, literary-fiction

’This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!

There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where two breadths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.’

Man, that yellow wal...more

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Feb 28, 2009 Adam rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-you-read-in-school

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...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novellas, psych, kindle, read-in-2012

Well-written description of a "nervous" woman's descent into full madness. This was initially published in 1892 but still can make the reader shiver.

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Apr 20, 2011 Marvin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle

Short, odd and maybe a bit too over-hyped for me to thoroughly enjoy it.This early feminist tale tries to be a bit too obtuse for my taste. Is the narrator going mad ? is she already mad? Did the treatment for her depression make her mad? Do I care? All of these question are diverted by an unreliable narrator and complicated by an unreliable reviewer. If only I can get someone to remove this Hello Kitty wallpaper that showed up in my office overnight, perhaps I can make sense of everything. Wher...more

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Marvin You probably should not read more into my tongue-in-cheek review than is there. It is more probable that the unreliable narrator was suffering from po...more
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Michelle You go, Marvin. ;)
Nov 21, 2012 04:18pm

notgettingenough Nicole: You obviously don't know much about the history of the treatment of the mentally ill. The narrator was clearly schizophrenic.
Marvin wrote: "As...more
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Jan 08, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Lisa by: A Rat in the Book Pile (Sarahbbc)

Shelves: 19th-century, 1001-books-read, kindle, usa

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read this short novella because Sarah from A Rat in the Book Pile (http://tinyurl.com/2fmncmv) wrote such an intriguing review of it, but now that I come to write my thoughts about it, I find that I have tagged it as one of the 1001 Books I Should Read and it is a very famous little novella indeed.

The narrator is unreliable, to say the least. She is a mother confined to a room upstairs in a rented house, separated from her baby and prevented from doing anything at all. This is (according to 10...more I read this short novella because Sarah from A Rat in the Book Pile (http://tinyurl.com/2fmncmv) wrote such an intriguing review of it, but now that I come to write my thoughts about it, I find that I have tagged it as one of the 1001 Books I Should Read and it is a very famous little novella indeed.

The narrator is unreliable, to say the least. She is a mother confined to a room upstairs in a rented house, separated from her baby and prevented from doing anything at all. This is (according to 1001 Books and Wikipedia) because she was undergoing the Weir Mitchell Rest Cure, but although there is an oblique reference to this, the reader only knows that the woman is subjected to a tyranny of deprivation imposed by her husband who is a doctor because she suffers (according to her explanation of his diagnosis) a 'temporary nervous depression'. This means he has even greater authority over her.

She tells us that the room has bars on the windows and rings on the walls because it was a nursery, but it is obvious that it has been set up as a secure place for a mentally-ill patient. There is a gate at the top of the stairs, and even the bed is nailed to the floor. The horrible yellow wallpaper is torn, but it doesn't take the reader long to work out who is tearing it.

She tells us that her husband's strict instructions are motivated by his love for her...but are they?

The question is, is she really mad or did this treatment make her so? Is she, in the beginning, perhaps suffering from post-natal depression and acting out her boredom because she's imaginative and creative and has no other outlet for her intellect than to imagine things within the wallpaper?

Before long, she has developed an obsession about the wallpaper and imbued it with all kinds of fantastic, hostile characteristics. She talks about creeping around, as if she has to be invisible in order to get out of the cage she has created out of the wallpaper. She is cunning, just like Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, because she locks herself in and throws away the key so that she can free the woman that she thinks is trapped in the wallpaper. When her husband finally gets in, the journal tells is that she has pulled off most of the wallpaper and is creeping around on all fours, oblivious to everything - but what has she done with that rope she had hidden up there somehow?

The woman's secret journal is written in a bleak, fractured style, which adds to the sense of disorientation. Is she really writing anything at all?(less)

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Oct 10, 2009 Kathryn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, classics, literary-horror

I did not like the characters. I did not like the format, with the main character writing as in a journal. This led to a slightly awkward ending. I listened to a librivox recording and this is the first narration from the site that I can not recommend. I have a great deal of respect and graditude for librivox volunteers but my personal opinion is that this was read incorrectly. Even considering this, I have to rate 4 stars simply because the character's slip into madness was fascnating and rathe...more

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May 15, 2011 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, horror, mystery-and-thrillers, nook, reviewed, shortstories-collections, challenge-1010

This was a creepy little story! I really liked it though.

Written as a series of journal entries, we see this woman slowly descend into madness. She's forcibly secluded away in a single room of a rented house for the summer, so that she can rest away what her physician husband calls her "temporary nervous depression," and she is prevented from working, interacting with people other than the few allowed by the hubs, banned from writing, presumably reading or doing anything, and in short is just l...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Sharon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: e-books, mental-health, classics

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Oct 14, 2007 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People who might have forgotten why feminism was needed

My first thought when it comes to this book has nothing whatsoever to do with its content. The cover of the Virago edition, a British press established to champion women writers, chose to market this early feminist text by splashing a nude woman, albeit seen from the rear but with a very pleasant posterior, across the front cover. This, I have to confess, caught my eye, and induced me to pick up the book which I subsequently bought for my wife, but I don’t quite get their motivation – other than...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Prashant rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book

This was terrifying !!

More than the queer behavior of the lady and the disturbing descriptions of the patterns of the wallpaper, I was worrying myself with the way the guy treated his wife. Throughout the story the husband of the lady was trying to be very caring and gentle but her problems were much more than he could have imagined.

Every time she felt the strange vibes of the room and noticed the queer way the patterns on the wallpaper convoluted, she asked him for help but the very rational a...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Stephen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, short-fiction, horror

3.0 stars. "Eerie" is the best word I can think of to describe this classic story about a woman's slow descent into madness after suffering what appears to be the effects of postpartum depression following the birth of her child. Written in the 1890's this is a classic piece of gothic fiction. I didn't love it but certainly found it a unique story that will stay with me for sometime.

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Feb 21, 2013 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hauntingly fascinating. My English professor mentioned that he taught this in another class and I made a note to myself to read it. I read it in 10 minutes because I was so intrigued, but I plan to read it again when I have more time in order to understand it more fully as well as develop an analysis.

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Oct 11, 2010 the little reader rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, read-in-2010, for-school

written in 1899, “The Yellow Wallpaper” details the life of a woman who travels to the country with her husband to rest following an illness that is most likely associated with post-partem depression (though this is never actually stated). She is relieved of all of her responsibilities and basically confined to the bedroom, which has a patterned yellow wallpaper that she finds hideous. As the days go by, she becomes more and more obsessed with the wallpaper and eventually loses herself within th...more

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Jun 16, 2010 The_Freddy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everybody, really.

Recommended to The_Freddy by: Jason in the first place

Shelves: classics, fiction, gothic, gutenberg-copy, horror, reading-challenge, short-story

Reading this story was a very intense experience.
I read it for the first time and I had not clue what to expect, I didn't really know anything about the story or the author before (only that I had been recommended to read it). Seeing that it was so very short I just started reading it and oh my!

I was intrigued at the very beginning and it drew me into it with a firm grip. In this little piece there is so much to be found, to think and talk about. I went back to reading some passages of it, I wen...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Amber rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: creepster, fiction, high-school-required, lady-fiction

CPG is pretty under-rated I think. I feel like even those not wanting to recognize the deep feminist overtones and an early version of The Problem With No Name that Betty Friedan would come to analyze in The Feminine Mystique can still enjoy this as a psychological drama. I'm surprised it hasn't be appropriated by the film industry as a horror film- it's that spooky. If you made the narrator wear tight jeans and a tank top and instead of being married she was promiscuous, you could have a summer...more

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May 12, 2013 Naznin Azeez rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Naznin by: Lottie Eve

I am totally stunned by this book. It let’s you see and feel how a person undergoing depression would feel. They can’t make others believe what’s going on inside them and have to face the harsh experience themselves. That is exactly what the title character in this book goes through. Her husband, John, who is a physician always calms her down with soothing words and reassures her she is alright and getting better, when she herself knows she is not. But she is not able to convince him for fear of...more I am totally stunned by this book. It let’s you see and feel how a person undergoing depression would feel. They can’t make others believe what’s going on inside them and have to face the harsh experience themselves. That is exactly what the title character in this book goes through. Her husband, John, who is a physician always calms her down with soothing words and reassures her she is alright and getting better, when she herself knows she is not. But she is not able to convince him for fear of his reaction.

The main highlight in this book, as suggested by the title, is the yellow wallpaper of her room, at the summerhouse she and John comes to stay at, as a countryside cure for her. Though she insists on staying in another room, John is adamant she stays there as that room has many windows and lot of sunlight. However, the wallpaper, stripped off from the wall at certain places, consumes her world completely. She spends hours at end watching it, forming shapes and patterns out of it. Her feelings of imprisonment are projected onto the wallpaper and she, having all the time in the world at hand, tries to scrutinize every bit of it.

The author very successfully takes us along the main character’s descent to insanity. The book is written in first person narrative and that appealed to me a lot. What can a wallpaper possibly do to drive a person crazy??. You might wonder. But just read this book and you will, for a very short period, be taken down the road to madness. The ending stunned and creeped me out. Being the imaginative person that I am, I could very well visualize the creepy scene. For a few minutes I sat still, horror gripping my heart, trying to get that picture out of my mind. I really wish I could say more but well, I hate spoilers myself!

Though this was written a long time ago (1899), it somehow sounds modern to me. Sometimes classics can bore you. But not this one. This one, though only a few pages, is powerful beyond imagination. I think the bookcover is perfect.

This is a brilliantly written book and I highly recommend you read it too!. This book gets a 5/5 from me, which by Goodreads standards mean it’s amazing!(less)

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May 09, 2013 Seif Salama rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book consists of a gem of a story and a mediocre afterward. The afterward includes a useful biography of the author and a short analysis of the story; my bias is always to allow the story to stand on its own and print literary criticism in books of literary criticism - Elaine Hedges bears the brunt of my bias by simply pointing out the obvious with regards to the wall-paper as symbol.
The story itself is very interesting - it is difficult to remember you are reading fiction rather than an ex...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Diana Connick rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: finished-better-for-it

Oh, my GOD! ... I Have really never had the time nor inclination, for that matter, to read a fiction or even nonfictional biography or any other reading material, other than Educational, Spiritual Books, and History of any nature! The "Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins just might be my first fictional short story! I was first drawn to Charlotte Perkins, and her style of torturous writing, as well as being... To begin this research and understanding of fiction, and its possible purpose for...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Giovanni Douglas rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Yellow Wallpaper is an autobiographical piece that tells of one summer spent by an author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her husband John in a colonial mansion that they have leased. Her paper tells about the time she spends in this house, and her experiences with particular wallpaper. She states early in her paper that she is sick, and that no one believes her. John is a noted physician and tells her that besides “nervous depression” and “slight hysterical tendency” there is nothing wrong wit...more The Yellow Wallpaper is an autobiographical piece that tells of one summer spent by an author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her husband John in a colonial mansion that they have leased. Her paper tells about the time she spends in this house, and her experiences with particular wallpaper. She states early in her paper that she is sick, and that no one believes her. John is a noted physician and tells her that besides “nervous depression” and “slight hysterical tendency” there is nothing wrong with her. She goes on to tell about her experiences with the wallpaper in the room that was once a nursery, also the room they slept in, and how it ultimately drove her insane. She describes how her fascination slowly turns from trying to just figure out the weird pattern of the wall paper, to seeing a caged woman in that wallpaper. This paper will defiantly affect all readers in one way or another. It will also keep certain thought in the readers head long after they finish reading.
One impact this book had on me was that it made me feel bad for the author. I knew going in to this book that the author was going to “go crazy” but I did not start to feel bad until she expressed what drove her to this state. She says that her husband John and her brother -who is also a physician- both, say that there is nothing wrong with her other than that she is nervous. This made me feel that she is all alone and no one can see that there is something wrong. I also thought that maybe they do know that something is wrong with her, and do not want to help her for some reason. I also feel bad because in the beginning on this paper she seems like a normal woman with a good family, besides her nervousness. The author may evoke some sadness in the audience with her paper.
The Yellow Wallpaper may also have a physiological impact on the audience. In the process of Charlotte “going crazy” she describes the pattern on the wall a little different each time gradually. At first she is mostly annoyed that there is no real design on the wallpaper and that that paper has random shapes and things that just do not make sense. Later she says the wallpaper starts to move with the light of either the sun or the moon, and also starts to see a figure in the patter. Finally she is convinced that there is a woman trapped behind bars in the pattern, and that woman gets out sometimes and creeps around the house. The author really made me think of how someone could get to this point mentally. You may start to realize that her psyche may have been unstable even before they arrived at the mansion. The author may even change the readers mind set to think differently about certain things.
This book will definitely leave a certain thought in the readers head. People may start to see certain situations differently because of this paper. The paper will not make you fear more things in life, but you may become more caution of certain things in life. It may also change someone’s persona. The audience also may begin to analyze other cases like this one, were something seems to fascinate someone and drive them insane. Her autobiographical paper will change the way her audience does certain things.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman shared with the world how she had a mental breakdown. She will impact the readers in a negative way or a positive way. The impact may be physical or mental. They will also last for some time after the reader is complete. Her story will impact readers in many different ways for years to come.
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Mar 02, 2013 Arukiyomi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books

This is by a long way the shortest item you’ll read on the 1001 books list. I’m not really sure why it was included at all in a list of “books” as it’s a short story that clocks in at a mere 6,000 words. It was, in any case, removed once the 2nd edition of the list appeared in 2008. But I’m glad it was there in the first place as I might never have read it. It’s a classic.

Confined to a room by an ignorant and controlling husband, the protagonist develops a fascination with the room’s yellow wall...more This is by a long way the shortest item you’ll read on the 1001 books list. I’m not really sure why it was included at all in a list of “books” as it’s a short story that clocks in at a mere 6,000 words. It was, in any case, removed once the 2nd edition of the list appeared in 2008. But I’m glad it was there in the first place as I might never have read it. It’s a classic.

Confined to a room by an ignorant and controlling husband, the protagonist develops a fascination with the room’s yellow wallpaper as her psychosis is deepened by her imprisonment.

The effect of the writing is captivating. Although you too feel bound up in her madness, Perkins Gilman gives you just enough perspective to be able to sympathise with the narrator’s predicament. It’s a sympathy that means you can’t help but side against John, the husband who we are surely supposed to feel is the root cause of all his wife’s problems.

There is no doubt that this short story packs a feminist punch. It seems clear that much of the narrator’s insanity is a result of her husband’s policy of confining her to rest in the room with the yellow wallpaper. But I wondered too what sympathy the writer had for the husband who was also constrained by the societal mores of his day and therefore believed with all his heart that he was caring for his wife when he confined her.

I’m a husband too (and also called John) and as I look back along what is now nearly 20 years of marriage, I thank God no one wrote a short story about how I treated my wife in days gone by when I knew no better.

On one level, therefore, this story works and wakes us up to the notion that men can be harmful in their treatment of women. On another level though, the lack of sympathy for men who often have no proper role models for real love in marriage is, for me, a glaring oversight and skews the story too far. How should we portray ourselves when we love the best we can with limited resources and broken lives? With more grace than Perkins Gilman allows, I’d suggest.

So, this is an important story: Not only does it show how men failed to love their wives in days gone by, unwittingly, it also shows us how women failed to understand why men did so at the time.(less)

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Jan 27, 2013 Phil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror

This story is frequently mentioned in connection with weird and Gothic fiction, with H.P. Lovecraft himself praising it in his Supernatural Horror in Literature essay. I'm glad I got around to reading it, as it's surprisingly effective despite its brief length.

The premise isn't shockingly new (and probably wasn't even in 1892): a young couple vacation in a creepy old house, and madness ensues. The vehicle for the insanity is novel, however, as the anxiety-ridden protagonist finds herself becomin...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Fayez rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 08, 2012 Sandra rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Monthly I meet with my writers group – today was exceptional – many good conversations and works. Today Sally spoke of a skeleton key, an object she connects with her father. The opening and closing of doors, the opening and closing of locks.
I have a fascination with locks – for the most part when I feel a lock has been opened – well the little snick of hope I hear is a lie, the lock closes tighter.
But this isn’t about me, it’s about “The Yellow Wal...more

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Nov 12, 2012 Pete Young rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A psychological horror story that owes much in style to Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator, whose name may or may not be Jane, keeps a journal while she herself is kept in a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper, all as a way of curing her post-natal depression. During her descent into madness her husband only sees the situation without seeing the struggle of the woman inside; this aspect of the story I still find unnatural as, being a doctor himself, he would surely notice something unsettling going...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Hannah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 1800-novels, i-own, self-discovery-novels, short-stories, pmc-junior-year

I promise to be brutally honest with my opinion, but it should not be taken as fact. Any reader should read it for themselves, before they decide if this book has any merit or not. Do not judge this book biased solely on my opinion. If you do, you might miss out on a great read. You never know. It could happen.

1. Strong Main Character/ Female Heroine: The female character is never named in the short story. Some people may call her delusional, but I call her whimsical and imaginative. For the...more

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Sep 27, 2012 David Sven rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A short story told in the first person that follows a woman's descent into madness. Not technically a horror, but it is seriously creepy in places - and there's also a lot of creeping that's creepy. It hit a bit of a nerve since I lived a few months with someone just before they were committed and believe me, there was a lot of creeping going on as well as other stuff that made your hair stick up on end.

The protagonist moves away with her husband and newborn child(or more like taken away by her...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Soledad rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed reading this story but it was almost painful to read. It was very severe but I did like the story with all its "hauntedness." It showed a side of people that others have a difficult time understanding at times. Like the narrator,many people have been told that nothing is wrong with them, and at the time this story was written it was worse, more so for women than men. The author does an incredible job of making the reader feel like they are going crazy along with the narrator. But I thi...more

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and non fiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today i...more

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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