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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." New England Magazine. 1892.


The yellow paper is a series of journals written by a woman, the narrator, who's husband locked her up in a bedroom and doesn't allow her to write or really do anything for that matter. the husband stake on the matter is to her get rid of her "temporary nervous depression." Due to her long confinement, she becomes slowly mentally challenged, crazy I shall say, and becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She keeps finding strange things about it and hates it with passion. The story's themes are gender, psychology and confinement.

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