Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest I haven’t read much classic reads this year, and a few days before the end of 2018, I decided to go for a classic short story, and I chose The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.This classic has been written by a woman in the 19th century. ...
When I first finished the stories I found them a bit odd, but then I really thought about them, kind of studied them, and now I really love it. It's a great collection of (feminist) short stories that are really thought provoking.I found 'The Yellow Wallpaper' really creepy though.
The problem with this book is not so much The Yellow Wallpaper part, but the Other Stories part. The Yellow Wallpaper is an effective short story, about a woman who starts going crazy, because she has been locked up in a room as part of a rest cure for what would then have been called neurosis. It...
How is feel about this book is quite aptly pictured in the BAM campaign series. Here is one example: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/19/business/media/19adnewsletter1-inline/19adnewsletter1-inline-popup.jpgIt took me about three days for the book to 'hit' me, which is now, and i can't st...
Creepy and utterly gripping, as all good stories about the descent into madness should be. This story about a woman who is kept in a "nursery" with bars on the windows and peeling, hideous yellow wallpaper as treatment for her postpartum depression is a feminist classic. A commentary on the treatmen...
This review is not exactly a ‘review’ in that sense, rather my analysis from my MA dissertation on The Yellow Wallpaper (only). I loved it; it made me sad and depressed, still I loved it. CPG was an extraordinary writer. I hope to read more of her works soon. I've mentioned the page numbers of the l...
A horrific and moving tale of a Victorian woman's descent into madness after being confined for a "rest cure" for postpartem depression. A classic of American literature.
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