By Charlotte Perkins Gilman New York : Feminist Press, 1973.
This is an infamous feminist short story about a women locked in her small bedroom by her hateful and misogynist husband. The women slowly goes mad and starts seeing other small women in the yellow wallpaper.
"This wallpaper has a kind of subpattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then. But in the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design." (from book)
What is deeply disturbing about this story is watching the slow descent into madness but the world in which the protagonist lives is not one any better. The yellow wallpaper is also based on the authors own struggle with depression, mental illness and femininity. Despite its age, this deeply unsettling story still relevant today and the disturbing nature of this book only gets better with age.
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