The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator Tony Walker

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Length 32 minutes

Language English

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“The Yellow Wallpaper is a great example of women receiving neglected health treatment while men’s health is even today further examined. It’s obvious the main characters is not receiving help, though she displays so many symptoms throughout the story. This story is also a big comment on the harmful affects of the vibrant, colorful wallpaper prints around the turn of the century. Containing high levels of arsenic. So through all their vanity and fixation on appearances, it’s ironic that her demise could be because of something as superficial as home decor.”
— Otillia • Page 1 Books

Summary

The story is a double play: is it the story of a woman going mad, or a woman possessed by something evil? We begin to suspect that the narrator’s apparently caring husband John, may not be as caring as she thinks. Is he trying to control her? We know that Charlotte was much concerned with the emancipation of women and them achieving financial independence, so is the character of John an echo of this?
The horror in the story revolves around the Yellow Wallpaper and like many of us, she sees to have seen patterns in the abstract wallpaper that eventually evolve into characters. She ultimately can enter the wallpaper and more disturbingly, the woman from the wallpaper can come out into her room. The bizarreness of the crouching, creeping figures serves to unnerve the reader.

Fiction Horror Short Stories