The yellow wallpaper book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I managed to get through it, but it was very hard at times. *** Just a quick note to say that this book could be potentially triggering for anyone suffering a mental illness. ![]() Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, “The Yellow Wallpaper” stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman’s descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women. ![]() In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper–a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. ![]() Buy: Amazon // Book Depository // Project Gutenberg (Free)įirst published in 1892, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. ![]()
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