| When paper makes you crazy, Rob's "Yellow Wallpaper" page |
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| " 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've got out at last" said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper..." |
| Insanity or liberation? It is up to the reader to decide what Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was trying to illustrate with her use of vivid imagery and descriptive details in "The Yellow Wallpaper". Originally published by a New England magazine. It was first rejected by other publications before it gained acceptance as a short story by a woman. It is written in a Gothic almost Poe style of writing. Was Gilman giving hints of her own demise as she was writing "The Yellow Wallpaper"? The answer to that is up to you. |
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