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Liked It2 of 2 members found this review helpful “I'm not sure whether to call The Yellow Wallpaper a long short story or a novelette. It is a story told in first person journal entries of a woman who slowly loses her grip on reality. Is she depressed? is she crazy? Is her rest cure of being confinend to her room which is papered in yellow...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “This is a short story written in several journal entries as if to suggest that it is an autobiographical work. It stars a main character who is troubled by an illness of the mind. She takes refuge with her husband in a beautiful house in the country. However she is very disturbed by the ugly...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“i go crazy with her.”
Holly Marie wrote this review Tuesday, November 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“In this edtion there are a few short stories that show the plight of the everday, typically married, woman. These storiesshow her neglected hardships, and they show how powerless she often is.These book were written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an ardent feminist, in the early 1900's. Few if any short stories can ever compare to the mind-bending, engrossing story "The Yellow Wallpaper" Even I, a man, can fully appreciate such a story.”
Brent S wrote this review Sunday, August 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“againstthetide said: 4 stars
Play Book Tag Shelf wrote this review Tuesday, July 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The Yellow Wallpaper is really more of a short story (or novella at best) that focuses on a woman who has a mental illness. Her husband, a physician, takes her on holiday and essentially locks her up in this room with what sounds like hideous yellow wallpaper. The story is told in a first person/diary format. I think the beauty of the story in many ways is that it doesn't narrate at all, but simply SHOWS what a descent into madness might feel like. The woman becomes increasingly distraught and is convinced there is a woman trapped in the wallpaper that she must free. You really get a sense of how someone loses a grip on reality from the tone and tenor of the writing. I'm thinking there's more symbolism here about womens' rights as well, but I'm not too well versed on the history of the time so I'm not sure - - but it seemed as though the woman being trapped in a room by a man was an intentional statement.
All in all, I was glad I read this story as it was very well written and also a bit scary!!
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“The Yellow Wallpaper is a perfect story to psychoanalyze because it is about a woman, who is mentally ill and her husband is a physician. It takes place in a mansion that they rented for the summer. Although she is depressed, everyone around her denies it and tells her she is not sick. She feels trapped inside this house because her husband forbid her to work and write in her journal. The title is called The Yellow Wallpaper because she is fascinated with the wallpaper of the house. I didn't really like this story because ultimately she goes insane and while reading it, you were forced to analyze it to understand what it really meant. I would recommend this book to people who like to analyze works and are interested in psychoanalysis.”
BILAN H wrote this review Thursday, June 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“ I really didn't enjoy this story. Although the story was very descriptive, I found myself confused and bored throughout the story. THe repetition, andd steady descriptions of the wall paper made me not really uinderstand the actual purpose behind the story. Iliked the overall lesson learned, and the themes presented in the story, in some ways.
LEXIS W wrote this review Tuesday, June 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The story is about a woman who was sick. She told her husband and brother that she was sick, but they believed it was all in her mind. After telling her husband that she was sick, he mad her stay inside of a romm covered in yellow papeer. For awhile she felt contained, but she soon started to examine and analyze the rooms wall paper. At first she hated the wall paper and thought that it was the ugliest thing that she had ever seen. After spending many days in the room, she started to believe that she saw diffferent images within the paper. At the end of the story her husband collapses, and she just walks over his dead body in disgust.
This story showed me how sometimes sicknesses are all in your head, but loneliness can make you even crazier. I don't think that the main character was caqtually crazy, but the ideas that her husband pushed on her, made her feel trapped within herself.,
I really don't think that I would recommend this story to anyone. I personally felt like the story was pointless, and the story was quite boring. If anyone else were to read it, I think that they would agree with me totally.”“This is a short story written in several journal entries as if to suggest that it is an autobiographical work. It stars a main character who is troubled by an illness of the mind. She takes refuge with her husband in a beautiful house in the country. However she is very disturbed by the ugly yellow wallpaper in her jail-cell-like room. As you can guess when you put a mentally unstable woman in a room that makes her nervous the drama unfolds. SPOILER ALERT: she goes crazy.”
GORDON G wrote this review Monday, June 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Strange, yet a good read.”
Tammy wrote this review Sunday, May 31 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The Yellow Wallpaper is a story that I read in English class. It is about a woman who goes insane over a period of about three months. Her husband thought it would be best to take her away from society and hide out in a mansion in the country. He kept her in the old nursery room of the house with bars on the window. In the room there was this hideous yellow wallpaper, or as she said. As time progressed she became obsessed with wallpaper. She analyzed every pattern and ever meaning she could find behind it. As her condition worsened she starts to see a woman in the wall, who is really herself. The woman is trapped in the wall, as the narrator is trapped in her mind. She always describes the woman as 'creeping' which, gives the story a mysterious tone. This story is very interesting as well as kind of disturbing because you actually watch this woman as she goes crazy. She is treated like a five year old by her husband and is isolated from other human contact most of the time.”
JENNA F wrote this review Thursday, May 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I absolutely LOVE The Yellow Wallpaper”
Marissa M wrote this review Friday, April 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This tiny novella should be read by all women it perfectly encapsulates womens positions in victorian society.”
Catriona P wrote this review Monday, March 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
