You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one´s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency - what is one to do? "The yellow wallpaper" i...
It starts so simply...a couple is on vacation. She is ill and taking a rest in the country. But is that true? She is scared, and trapped, and not allowed to leave. Her fear is palpable. Or, maybe, she is an extremely unreliable narrator?
Let me begin by saying that this is a simple story told in a mesmerizing fashion. I loved every minute of it. I found the protagonist relatable and interesting, her preoccupation with the wallpaper pulled me in and then held me in that room with her. At under 100 pages, this story was perfect in a r...
I remember reading this for an English class in high-school. We also listened to the audio-book and the atmosphere this story created still makes me shudder. The yellow wallpaper is a short story about a woman that according to everyone around her, is suffering from depression. However, this is far ...
Goodreads summary: 'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-...
When I was a teenager I used to stare at a single strange shape in the wall of the shower tile as I showered. I somehow knew it would be significant when the shape's meaning changed. What had long looked like paunchy, monstrous face with cavernous features one day simply transmografied into a phallu...
I watched a couple of YouTube video reviews of this book and decided to pick up a free kindle version. It is definitely creepy and I see why it's important piece of feminist literature. After I finished I had to research the book to learn more and to grasp a better understanding. I knew there was mu...
I first read this piece for an English class a couple years ago and it’s been with me ever since. It’s a fairly short read but when it’s over it still haunts you and leaves you chilled to the bone. I think that this story depicts how someone with a mental illness could feel when their illness isn’t ...
To summarize this book in one sentence: The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman's descent into the harrowing grasp of Post Partum Depression while her husband and sister-in-law ignore her growing issues out of ignorance, blind righteousness and fear.This story starts out seemingly harmless enough. A w...
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