The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: The Yellow Wall-paper.
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But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.
For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow.
She locks herself in the room, now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave when the summer rental is up.
In the end, she imagines there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the Wallpaper and comes to believe she is one of them.
The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper A Yellow smell.
But there is something else about that paper - the smell ...
It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper It makes me think of all the Yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad Yellow things.
With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper.
The story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrator\'s mental health and her descent into psychosis.
The room\'s windows are barred to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.
She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself.
As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period.
Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery.
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer.
It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women\'s health, both physical and mental.
A Story) is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: The Yellow Wall-paper
