The Yellow Wallpaper (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781720323099)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over the room's yellow wallpaper: "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper - the smell ...The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper A yellow smell."

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN-10: 1720323097
ISBN-13: 9781720323099
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2018
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.05d