The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman • 1892
Devastation Rating
mental health injustice literary fiction historical
Our Take
A woman is prescribed rest and forbidden to write and goes mad, and Gilman makes the madness feel like the only rational response available. The wallpaper is the prison and the prison is the marriage and the marriage is the era. A short story that contains more rage and precision than most novels twice its length.
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