![]() ![]() "The Yellow Wallpaper" is considered an important work of early American feminist literature. After some time, the narrator becomes convinced that the wallpaper depicts a woman trapped behind a cage, ![]() She soon starts to see grotesque images in its pattern. The narrator takes an immediate dislike to the room's yellow wallpaper. John chooses a bedroom for himself and his wife which is large and airy but otherwise quite unpleasant. The woman, her baby, John, John's sister and some servants stay in a large rented house. The story's protagonist and narrator is an unnamed woman whose husband, a doctor named John, makes her spend the summer in the country for her health. ![]() It is semi-autobiographical, having been written shortly after its author was treated for postpartum psychosis. The story describes a woman's descent into madness. It first appeared in print in The New England Magazine in January 1892. "The Yellow Wallpaper" (originally published as "The Yellow Wall-paper: A Story") is a short story by the American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Recent illustration for "The Yellow Wallpaper" by the artist Yesserina. ![]()
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