| *The Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1899. *It was about a woman who was seriously ill, and her husband being a doctor thought that the only way to heal her was to give her the Rest Cure. Which back then was used a lot for women, because men and doctors didn't know what to do with them. *The Rest Cure only made her worse, and she just got worse and worse every day. *He left her in a room that had repulsive yellow wallpaper, and barred windows. *She wasn't aloud to do very much like; read, write, visit with guests, take care of her child. * She would write in a journal, about how she was felling and what was going on. * By the end of the book she had gone completely crazy, and was crawling about her room around the wall. |
| The Yellow Wallpaper By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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| About the Story : |
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| Quotes From the Story: |
| * "John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures." * "John is a physician, and --perhaps-- (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper, and a great relief to my mind) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster." * "You see he does not believe I am sick!" * " Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitment and change, would do me good." * " The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off -- the paper-- in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life." * " I suppose John never was nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about the wall-paper. |
| My thoughts on the Story: |
| I feel the story written by Gilman was to show how women were treated back in those days. To show how men and women were treated differently. Women were seen as less important compared to men. A setting donated greatly to the themes in the story is how the masion alone reflected on how distraught the woman in the story was. I thought the story was very good. There was a lot of irony and detail. I would recommend this book to anyone that liked to read. |
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