Perkins Gillman, Charlotte
Description
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman is an epic classic first published in 1892. A striking short story on domestic life and gender roles
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in 19th century America.
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“It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.”
Synopsis
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short-story describing a young woman and her husband. He imposes a rest cure on her when she suffers "temporary nervous depression" after the birth of their baby. They spend the summer at a colonial mansion, where the narrator is largely confined to an upstairs nursery. The story makes striking use of an unreliable narrator in order to gradually reveal the degree to which her husband has imprisoned her: she describes torn wallpaper, barred windows, metal rings in the walls, a floor "scratched and gouged and splintered," a bed bolted to the floor, and a gate at the top of the stirs, but blames all these on children who must have resided there. This is a must-read early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.
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Title Details
● Original 1892 Scripture
● Epic Classic
● 5 x 8 Inches
● Matte Cover
● White Paper
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