The Yellow Wallpaper

Ashley Paige Marie Wheat 4/10/11 History 130 Section 110 Carey Kelley The icteric Wallpaper The color Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a very mysterious, cold short story that grasped my attention the entire way through, as it was very realistic. It made me feel like I was the of import character, lying in discern with a serious oddball of depression, watching the clock tick by slowly as if it was my last hour. I feel that it is a must read, and I hope that after you read my review, you will want to seat down and read it yourself. It truly is a good story. The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of a nameless young cleaning woman who is taken to a country retreat for complete roost and relaxation after the birth of her baby. The story is based on the authors own experiences. In the story her husband, a doctor, and her brother, similarly a doctor, both insist that she needs complete isolation due to her unknown condition. Her husband thought that she was just distraint from mild anxiety and needed to be by herself, and that it would in conclusion go away. Despite openly disagreeing with their opinion that she needed to be by herself, her husband and brother insisted on this kind of treatment. Therefore, as unfortunate as it was, she reluctantly obeyed their wishes.

Lying down a lot and doing literally nothing, not even allowed to write, which the young woman secretly did to keep her sanity, meant that she had no desire to lay in that location and get well. She longed for interaction with other people, especially with her dear husband, nevertheless this was not encouraged. As she continued to lay in bed and tried to coax herself into a better mindset, she became fixated on the colour wallpaper in the room that is her prison. The color is repellent, almost yucky; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.(p. 11) Eventually, she began to imagine that there was a woman... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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