The Yellow Wallpaper (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- First Published: 1892
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction, Women’s literature
- Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Power, personal or social, Sexism, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Doctors, New England, Mental illness, Reality, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Imagination, Depression, mental
- Locales: East (U.S.), New England
The Work
The Yellow Wallpaper is an autobiographical novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in which she describes the treatment of women during a rest cure prescribed for nervous disorders by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, who was a famous physician. The story describes the submissive, childlike obedience of women to men authority figures that was considered typical at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Charlotte, the protagonist of the story, is helpless to express her own needs. She is taken by her husband, John, to a country house so that she can recuperate from a...
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