The Yellow Wallpaper was written around 1890 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story is about a woman who is battling with nervous depression. She is married to a man named John who is her doctor. Her treatment to get over her sickness requires that she does nothing active, especially writing which she loves the most to do. She feels that activity, freedom, and interesting work would help her condition and reveals that she has begun a secret journal in order to “relieve her mind.” Her husband John belittles her about her illness as well as her thoughts. Her husband locks her away in a room with yellow wallpapers in an attempt to make her better. She becomes disturbed by this wallpaper. She describes it as "revolting." She eventually turns to the yellow wallpaper as an escape goat for writing. What started off as something horrible turns into her obsession.
This story was very weird but at the same time interesting! I would suggest to anyone who has not read it to read it.
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