The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a very important short story, and among the most notable as it used the themes and characterisation of the text to act as a mouthpiece for the author's own views on female subjugation and imprisonment, The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the descent into madness of an unnamed female protagonist. From the onset of what her husband, a doctor, calls "temporary nervous depression", he takes her to a summer holiday home for what is called a "rest cure" (whereby work, such as writing, is prohibited). However, her condition worsens, and she begins to see images of people in the wallpaper of the room she is ...  Read the complete review